When the Audit object access policy setting is enabled on removable storage devices in Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012, you may experience one or more of the following issues:
- You cannot create a Hyper-V virtual machine on a USB drive. Additionally, you receive the following error message:
Windows Cannot Access \\Servername\Sharename. Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose.
Error Code: 0x80070005
Access is Denied - You cannot access file shares. This includes the default administrative shares that are located on a removable storage device. Additionally, you receive the following error message:
Windows cannot access \\Servername\Sharename.You do not have permission to access \\Servername\Sharename. Contact your network Administrator to request access. - You cannot access an Internet Information Services (IIS) website that is hosted on a removable storage device. Additionally, you receive the following error message:
Filename: \\?\E:\WEB\Ethics\Web.config
Error: Cannot read configuration file. - Updates to Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) are not downloaded when the target path for downloads is located on a removable storage device. Additionally, error logs that resemble the following are logged:
The WSUS content directory is not accessible.
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'drive:\WSUS\WsusContent\anonymousCheckFile.txt' is denied.
The server is failing to download some updates. - You cannot install Microsoft SQL Server on a removable storage device.
Note When you use a VMWare guest system, some SCSI drives are recognized as removable storage. This can affect applications that are installed on nonsystem drives, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Distributed File System Replication, and IIS.