Additional Reference Material on BitLocker
My last post walked through the process of installing and implementing BitLocker on a Hyper-V server. During my research and testing, I found a lot of pretty useful documentation that helped me through the process. I wanted to share this information so that you can gain "a well rounded knowledge" of BitLocker.
Here is a great blog on using BitLocker on removable drives. This blog also details the more popular commands used by manage-bde.wsf. I'll show you the commands I use to set it up, but you should read David's article on the additional detail.
http://blogs.msdn.com/askdavid/archive/2007/06/08/enabling-bitlocker-on-removable-drives-usb-flash-drives-usb-hard-drives.aspx
Here is the link to a good article that discusses the Remote Administration Tools.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941314/en-us
If you are managing a Hyper-V Server, or a Windows Server 2008 Core installation, manage-bde.wsf needs to be used. The GUI BitLocker application is not available on a GUI-less installation.
This is a great overview of BitLocker. Please read this article before you implement BitLocker. It will give you an overview of the requirements and some important details on implementation.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725719.aspx
Take note that ServerMgrCmd is not available on a Hyper-V Server, you must use ocsetup to install BitLocker.
Until next time,
Rob!