How to hide specific drives on a server?

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I would like to know what's the recommended solution for the following problem.

We do not want users to see (or at least not to modify) the drives D and E of a server they have remote access to.

However, the tools installed on that server still need to have access to those drives in order to be able to work properly.

There's a Group Policy setting you can enable to hide those drives from users. The setting does not prevent programmatic access to those drives. — joeqwerty, Jan 25, 2019 at 17:11
Right. There's a setting to restrict/hide access to all drives. That's the one you should use. It will prevent users from viewing and accessing all local drives in Windows/File Explorer, etc. It does not prevent programmatic access to those drives for SQL, Exchange, etc. — joeqwerty, Jan 25, 2019 at 17:39
What about ACLs? Allow the users to read/write to the places they need to have access to and prevent access to everything else.... — Sven, Jan 25, 2019 at 17:50

Rickson · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-17 10:02:26Z

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This registry setting helped us to hide the drive letters: https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-nodrives.html

answered Feb 17, 2019 at 10:02

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