A quick post with a little script I have created to find out how long it took for the BitLocker encryption to finish the encryption of the harddrive. This script needs to run not too long after the encryption has occured, since it relies on the eventlog: $BitLockerEvents = get-eventlog -LogName system -Source Microsoft-Windows-BitLocker-Driver $BitLockerStart […]
Just a quick and friendly tip. Often when I re-install my computer and I want to enable BitLocker, I want to save the recovery key temporarily to my C: drive. If you try to save to the desktop for example, Windows will complain and give you the following error message: This location can’t be used. […]
I recently did a project involving Bitlocker on Windows 7 with HP computers. The customer had a couple of different models and TPM wasn´t enabled on all of them. So, to get Bitlocker to work, we first had to find a way to enable, set correct ownership and finally activate the TPM chip. The short […]
Yesterday the beta 1 for MDT 2012 became available from connect.microsoft.com. What I first noticed was the 2 new templates when creating a task sequence: One for client and one for server. The actual steps for configuring the VHD’s looks like this in a task sequence: First it formats the physical drive, the creates the […]