Hi all.
I have searched Google a fair bit on this but shockingly I just can't find an actual answer. The Group Policy forum is where I should have started rather than finally come to :)
I am no genius with GP, I use it in the most basic ways in very small orgs. My users appear to all have the same problem, when they insert a removable media device that has software on it that might run or autorun, I get the "This program is blocked by group policy, contact your admin" message. I don't believe this ccurs with removable media just as just plain USB storage sticks. So far the two examples I know of are for an Internet providers USB broadband mobility stick, and another user that is using some Kodak products (SD card, camera, and even the Kodak CD I think).
Environment is 2008 R2, Win7 Pro workstations, all users are local admin on their machine. All users are in the default Users container, and all computers are in the Computer container. To my recollection I have never set a GPO that would directly or indirectly cause all users problems like this. The only thing that has had indirect consequences that I know of in the past, was because we use many of the options available under Folder Redirection, including redirecting the Desktop. In some cases, when a user has tried to launch an exe or what not that was on the desktop, it failed because it's trying to launch in truth on their user folder on the server, not really on the Windows Desktop. I'm not sure if that might impact my current problem.
To start, where can I go to actually check GPO's for this? Is this the Software Restriction Policy? If so, which one governs, the one in User Configuration or Copmputer Configuration? In both cases I went to GPMC and under both, it would say I had to go to the Actions menu to create a New Software Restriction policy. I did so (just picking the item in the Actions menu), and the resutlt was some choices under the actual GPO now, none of which I've yet configured.
So, I need to torublesahoot this ut also to know where such a thing causing this error message would be set under normal circumstances. Also, could antivirus cause this? I can't see the error saying "group policy" if it did though.
Thank you very much.