Portable Device blocking Policy issue

Hi,
We have recently applied GPO to block Portable devices using GP setting under computer configuration/admin tools/system/removable storage devices/WPD devices
We have also created exception policy based on group membership.
We have some of the users who uses Windows CE devices for business purpose. The policy was applied on them as well for which those devices were also blocked. We have later added those PC's to exception group and the policy was reverted back as we can see
from RSOP.MSC but the devices are still inaccessible and giving error that "you does not have permission to access the device"
Also the DVD burning softwares are not able to identify the DVD drives but those are visible in My Computer. I am not sure why this kind of issue happened even when the policy is rolled back.
We have deleted the GPO history and tried but no use. Even we have disjoined the PC from Domain but the issue remains.
If we do system restore to old date then it starts working.
I am not able to understand is it because of policies or something else

Hi,
As far as I know, if we configure any settings under Computer Configuration\ Administrative Templates\System\Removable Storage Access
The following registry entry should be created:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\RemovableStorageDevices
If we configure any settings under User Configuration\ Administrative Templates\System\Removable Storage Access
The following registry entry should be created:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\RemovableStorageDevices
Under these two entries, there should be GUIDs for the corresponding policy settings we have configured. After clicking a GUID, we should be able to see the registry value
for the policy setting.
In this case, if we enable WPD Devices: Deny read access or Deny write access, the value of Deny_Read or Deny_write should be 1, and if we disable WPD Devices: Deny read access
or Deny write access, the value of Deny_Read or Deny_write should be 0.
Besides, if we don’t configure any settings under Computer Configuration and User Configuration\ Administrative Templates\System\Removable Storage Access, there should
be no such registry entries.
Best regards,
Frank Shen

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