BitLocker Drive Encryption

For IT Professsionals

• BitLocker FAQ
  This article lists answers to frequently asked questions about BitLocker.
• Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption step-by-step guide
  This step by step guide provides the instructions you need to use BitLocker Drive Encryption in a test environment.
• Windows Vista Trusted Platform Module Services step-by-step guide
  This step-by-step guide provides the instructions necessary to use Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Services in a test lab environment.
• Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption Design and Deployment Guides
  These guides provide prescriptive guidance for planning your BitLocker deployment in an enterprise and include detailed step-by-step instructions for deploying BitLocker using various deployment methods.
• Configuring Active Directory to Back up Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption and Trusted Platform Module Recovery Information
  This document describes how to configure Active Directory to back up recovery information for Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM).
• Deploying BitLocker with the Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs
  This toolkit provides tested guidance and powerful tools to help you protect your most vulnerable data - the information stored on your employees' laptops. The strategies outlined in this free, downloadable toolkit are easy to deploy, and show how to optimize your deployment of BitLocker, so you can keep mobile data out of the wrong hands.
• BitLocker Drive Encryption Technical Overview
  This overview describes BitLocker, including its life cycle on an enterprise computer. The information in this paper applies to Windows versions with BitLocker.
• Implementing BitLocker on Servers
  This article details how you can use BitLocker on Windows Server 2008 to achieve a higher level of data protection.

For Developers

Community and Support

• Description of the BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool
• Error message when you try to use BitLocker Drive Encryption in Windows Vista: "The drive configuration is unsuitable for BitLocker Drive Encryption"
• How to use the BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer for Active Directory
• Users and Computers tool to view recovery passwords for Windows Vista
• Windows Security Blog

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