This policy setting lets you prevent users from selecting optical media (CD/DVD) for storing backups.
If you enable this policy setting, users are blocked from selecting optical media as a backup location.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can select optical media as a backup location.
| Registry Hive | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
| Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Backup\Client |
| Value Name | DisableBackupToOptical |
| Value Type | REG_DWORD |
| Enabled Value | 1 |
| Disabled Value | 0 |