http://blogs.technet.com/b/mdop/archive/2011/02/09/coming-to-mdop-microsoft-bitlocker-administration-and-monitoring.aspxThis morning on the Windows for your Business blog , we announced a new product that will come to MDOP in a future release called Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM). MBAM will be available through the Microsoft Desktop Optimizationen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/mdop/archive/2011/02/09/coming-to-mdop-microsoft-bitlocker-administration-and-monitoring.aspx#3539843Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:01:25 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3539843Chris Hallum<p>Hello Michael, in MBAM 1.0 setup creates a certificate such that it can encrypt the recovery DB using SQL TDE. To take advantage of this new certificate the MBAM setup implementation needed to restart the services. </p> <p>In MBAM 2.0 the design has been changed such that the services no longer need to be restarted. &nbsp;</p> <p>MBAM 1.0 and 2.0 support use of the Enterprise, Datacenter, Developer editions of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Chris Hallum</p> <p>Microsoft Corporation</p> <p>Windows Client Security</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3539843" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mdop/archive/2011/02/09/coming-to-mdop-microsoft-bitlocker-administration-and-monitoring.aspx#3539173Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:13:20 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3539173Michael<p>I have recently been involved in having to install MBAM. &nbsp;I come from a datbase perspective and was surpised to see that the installation of the databases actually stops for a period of time &nbsp;the SQL Server and SQL Server Agent services during installation. &nbsp; It does however restart them later on. &nbsp;Why does the installed actually stop the services? &nbsp;For deployment into production this could have caused a major outage if being installed on a shared database instance or service. &nbsp;</p> <p>Are there any guidelines on what versions of SQL Server MBAM is supported on?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3539173" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mdop/archive/2011/02/09/coming-to-mdop-microsoft-bitlocker-administration-and-monitoring.aspx#3469437Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:50:35 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3469437Chris Hallum<p>Hello Angel, you’ll be happy to know that MBAM scales well and requires little disk space for storage. We document the details in the MBAM Scalability white paper which can be found at: <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=229600">go.microsoft.com/fwlink</a></p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Chris Hallum</p> <p>Microsoft Corporation</p> <p>Windows Client Security </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3469437" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mdop/archive/2011/02/09/coming-to-mdop-microsoft-bitlocker-administration-and-monitoring.aspx#3469417Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:15:24 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3469417Angel Canario<p>AJ,</p> <p>I&#39;m trying to implement MBAM in my organization. I dont see to find any information perterning to MBAM hardware requirement on a Windows 2008 R2. I can go with the O/S hardware requirement but what about the database space requirement. i will really appricite if you can redirect me to the proper site or provide specs</p> <p>thanks </p> <p>angel </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3469417" width="1" height="1">