Windows 10: Bitlocker "Waiting Activation" Phase - Issue with Enabling Remote from an RMM

Hello,Over the last month been working on a Bitlocker script that will Encrypt C Drive.First, we check if the TPM is enabled or not if not it writes a message back to us to inform us. If it is, it moves to the next stage of checking the driveinfo for validation to Ensure we only encrypt C drive. Once C drive has been validated we run- manage-bde -on c: -RecoveryPassword -skiphardwaretestThen we have a separate script that pulls the key and stores it in an encrypted location.An issue arises when a laptop is pre-enabled with BitLocker. Although the drive has been encrypted, no key has been gener

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Bitlocker "Waiting Activation" Phase - Issue with Enabling Remote from an RMM

Hello,

Over the last month been working on a Bitlocker script that will Encrypt C Drive.

First, we check if the TPM is enabled or not if not it writes a message back to us to inform us. If it is, it moves to the next stage of checking the driveinfo for validation to Ensure we only encrypt C drive. Once C drive has been validated we run

- manage-bde -on c: -RecoveryPassword -skiphardwaretest

Then we have a separate script that pulls the key and stores it in an encrypted location.

An issue arises when a laptop is pre-enabled with BitLocker. Although the drive has been encrypted, no key has been generated, which is why it is waiting for activation. We have tried the same command and it does not turn Bitlocker on it does not even generate a key so we attempted:





This when run on a machine worked as intended generated a key and turned on BitLocker for C drive. But when it was run remotely in a ps script deployed to the machine or run directly through our RMM solution as a PowerShell command it only generated a key and did not activate Bitlocker.

Though we found if we deleted the key that was then generated and then re-run the same command remotely it created the key and enabled Bitlocker. Though after testing, we found if we restarted the machine after this method it would ask for the Bitlocker key every time after a reboot or shutdown. We are not sure why this is occurring. Any ideas would be greatful

Thank you

-Cody

 

Bitlocker "Waiting Activation" Phase - Issue with Enabling Remote from an RMM

Good day Cody! I am glad to be able to provide assistance to you today. I would suggest to post this query to our neighbor forum from the link below. They are more oriented on with regards to this type queries/issues and there will be IT Pros/System Admins/Server Admins/AD Admins who are available that will be able to fulfill your query out there.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/produ...

Regards,

Paul R.

 

Bitlocker Randomly Enabled

Hi,

On my personal Lenovo laptop, Bitlocker somehow randomly was enabled. I have not enabled it, and I followed the recovery steps without luck. It seems that it was enabled during an update. I logged into my Microsoft account, see that the laptop is listed, but there is no bitlocker key listed. I am at a loss on what the next steps might be for me to be able to log into my computer at this point.

Carl