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QUESTION POSED ON: 10 January 2006
I was trying to disable USB ports on a user's PC through GPOs. I found the template that will do it. However, I'm not sure how to import it. Can you please let me know step by step how to do this?

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This Microsoft Knowledgebase article outlines the steps for doing this.


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