DriveLock Device Control

Universal Camera Devices

In Windows 10, there’s a new device class: Universal Cameras; it is used for connected or integrated web cameras that do not have specific device drivers.

Currently, you cannot manage this device class with DriveLock.

To control these devices, please install the vendor’s driver that comes with the product. Then DriveLock automatically recognizes the correct device class.

Windows Portable Devices (WPD)

Locking “Windows Portable devices” prevented that some Windows Mobile Devices could be synchronized via "Windows Mobile Device Center", although the special device was included in a whitelist.

Windows starting from Windows Vista and later uses a new "User-mode Driver Framework" for this kind of devices. DriveLock now includes this type of driver.

The driver is deactivated on the following systems because of a malfunction in the Microsoft operating system:

• Windows 8
• Windows 8.1 without Hotfix KB3082808
• Windows 10 older than version 1607

CD-ROM drives

DriveLock only shows a usage policy once when a CD is inserted. When ejecting the CD and inserting a new one, the usage policy does not appear any more but the new CD is blocked nonetheless. When you restart DriveLock, the usage policy appears again.

This is because DriveLock only recognizes the actual device in the policy (CD-ROM drive), not the content (CD-ROM).

Applying a local policy

Some settings are not applied correctly when you save or export a local policy, and therefore may not provide the expected results when you test these settings on individual computers. Therefore, please use one of the other configuration options (configuration file, group policy, or centrally stored policy) that are not affected by this limitation for your testing.