The Windows Vista RC1 release is quickly approaching and I know many of you are eager to hear the latest and greatest news about BitLocker. Well, wait no more my fervent comrades! Anyone who is familiar with previous builds may recall walking through...

It’s been a while since WinHEC 2005, and it was time for a meaningful refresh of our BitLocker docs. In an effort to crystallize the product functionality in one relatively short, yet technical document, I have updated the BitLocker Technical Overview...

I often see two questions related to free (a.k.a. “unallocated”) disk space when people talk about Windows BitLocker™ Drive Encryption on various forums: Q: What happens to unallocated space when I enable BitLocker on my volume? Does it get encrypted...

Every wonder about all those keys in BitLocker? Here's the scoop on the ones you need to care about....

Anyone who has tried enabling BitLocker will have been greeted with a friendly dialog box insisting that you create a recovery password. I remember the first time I saw this, I found myself asking, “what is this recovery password, and what am I supposed...

On May 23-25, members of the BitLocker team participated in the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle. It was a successful event for us, and we even got some mentions in keynote speeches. Everyone we talked to understood the importance...

Welcome to the BitLocker™ Drive Encryption Team blog! The focus of this blog is to post technical content on a range of topics, but especially how you, our customers, can use BitLocker. Posts will include things like: Announcements of new documents...

Because we have many government customers who will want to run FIPS-compliant software, Microsoft will certify BitLocker™ to the FIPS 140-2 standard. This is a long process, but if all goes well we should be in good shape within a few months after shipping...

Malicious software can lurk in the most humorous of dancing baby videos and cause havoc on your computer. To help protect against malware taking control of your computer's Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security hardware, computer manufacturers should...

You might think that having your TPM security hardware be “owned” may not be a good thing. If you’re well-versed in slang , you’re excused. However, to own or “take ownership” of your computer’s TPM is actually desirable for both functionality and security...

Top 10 Reasons for Deploying BitLocker on Branch Office Servers 1. Information Loss is Costly Information is the key asset of IT industry. Losing this asset or getting it in wrong hands can be equally damaging for all businesses small, medium...

Recently I received an interesting question around BitLocker & Application Compatibility. In other words will an application, which works on a machine without BitLocker also work on a machine with BitLocker enabled? I believe it sounds as simple a...

My name is Tanner Slayton and I am a Sr. Support Escalation Engineer for Microsoft on the Windows Core Team. I am writing today to shed some light on a common Bitlocker problem that we see. * While you can accomplish most tasks via the Bitlocker...

Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “How to use Hash of TPM from AD to reset your TPM password”. As per Best Practices for Bitlocker we configure a Group...

Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal . I am a Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “How to get the bitlocker policies for windows 7 for on Windows Server 2003 as domain functional level” If you open...

Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover “How to backup recovery information in AD after Bitlocker is turned ON in Windows 7.” A common question we are asked is...

Hello, my name is Manoj Sehgal. I am a Senior Support Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover How to initialize TPM successfully when you enable Bitlocker in Windows 7. A common problem we have seen since the release of Windows...