I have been trying and cannot seem to get it to work properly. Full disk encryption in configmgr 1910 a closer look using real. Preprovision bitlocker in windows pe configuration. This step enables bitlocker encryption on the hard drive and sets key protectors. Jorge orchilles, in microsoft windows 7 administrators reference, 2010. Preprovision bitlocker in windows pe configuration manager.
There is, however, an issue when using mbam to manage these items if you are using bitlocker preprovisioning during operating system deployment osd. Windows 7 already brought the ability to prepare the drive partitions for bitlocker during installation, and windows 8server 2012 allows you. Another new bitlocker feature that is aimed at the enterprise is the ability to preprovision bitlocker, or to provision it prior to the installation of the operating system. How to enable bitlocker by using mbam as part of a windows. Using a 256bit aes key could potentially offer more security against future attempts to access your files. This can be done using either of the following options. You can enable bitlocker from the windows preinstallation environment winpe. Enable and activate tpm for bitlocker preprovisioning in. By default the bitlocker options are greyed out until we add an image that is bitlocker capable.
Escrow tpm ownerauth for windows 7, mbam must own the tpm for escrow to occur. Add the command in task sequence step managebde on %osdisk% used, ideally after the disk has been formatted and is empty. I found out that the preprovision bitlocker step was done right and that the bitlocker step right after setup windows and. Prepare tpm for bitlocker preprovisioning win10 t440p 20190605. Newest bitlocker questions feed subscribe to rss newest bitlocker questions feed to subscribe to this rss feed, copy and paste this url into your rss. This task sequence step is part of sccm 2012 and requires winpe 4. The preprovision bitlocker step takes place in winpe and normally. Bitlocker drive encryption keep company laptops secure. For windows 10, version 1607 or later, only windows can take ownership of the tpm. Goodbye mbam bitlocker management in configuration. Once the hard drive is formatted, every dropped data are written and encrypted at the same time. We have received several inquiries from customers who are moving to windows 10 that are trying to leverage bitlocker and preprovisioning during osd. How can you use bitlocker preprovisioning via an mdt task sequence, and. Use the managebde tool to preform a managebde protectors add c.
Bypass mbam policy check when running invokembamclientdeployment. The catch here is that in order for preprovisioning to work, a tpm has to be present on the system and enabled, as stated in the preprovision bitlocker step. Now, after applying the os imagewin 7 ent x64 sp1, preprovisioning bitlocker, and rebooting winload. Overview of bitlocker device encryption in windows 10. Bitlocker drive encryption protects the data on your computer by preventing unauthorized access to the hard disk drive.
Im just setting up a task sequence to deploy windows 8 and preprovision bitlocker which is wicked fast by the way. Windows 7 bitlocker encryption with preprovisioning, used. Without getting technical, this process means turning on. How to manually preprovision bitlocker experts exchange. Used space encryption or preprovisioning bitlocker. Create a group within the windows pe stage and call it bitlocker preprovisioning or something similar add a run command line step, call it set bitlocker xts aes 256 and enter the following details. So there you have it, preprovisioning bitlocker in winpe during a windows 8 deployment update. Preprovision bitlocker full disk encryption with mbam in. Bitlocker preprovisioning in windows vista and windows 7, bitlocker is provisioned post installation for system and data volumes through either the managebde command line interface or the control panel user interface. The task sequence was light and doing was meant to test the preprovisioning of bitlocker when deploying windows 7 enterprise. Windows 7 is an excellent operating system with a tenacious vitality that is still used by a large number of users after windows 10 has been released for 3 years. Bitlocker was introduced in windows vista but, like the operating system itself, did not get many implementations due to lack of features and control. Search for manage bitlocker or go to control panel bitlocker drive encryption. Locate the preprovision bitlocker step, and place a check mark in the use full disk encryption check box.
Just started most recently after i updated my os win to 1903 but the apply os step occurs after the preprovisioning. This gem of a change is the secret behind preprovisioning only. You can easily use powershell to check the bitlocker status on a machine. Microsoft has improved the feature for windows 7, which now may be used in enterprise environments. Computer configuration policies administrative templates windows components bitlocker drive encryption operating system drives. That means both drives are preprovisioned, only the used drive space is encrypted. How to make bitlocker use 256bit aes encryption instead. The best type of security measures are transparent to the user during implementation and use. Now that we have configuration manager 2012 sp1 beta to test, there is a new bitlocker step in the default task sequences that allows us to enable bitlocker during the deployment and it is called preprovision bitlocker. Research has been pointing to bitlocker on windows and available.
For more information, see setup windows and configmgr. Preprovision bitlocker full disk encryption with mbam in mdt or. If you enable bitlocker near the end of the task sequence with xtsaes 256 if you are using windows 10, it wont be done encrypting before the. If you are using mdt or sccm 1802 and older, this is for you. This is an huge benefits as you can get ride of the 25 hours post install encryption phase. Earlier windows versions dont start after you use preprovision. Dell k2000 windows 7,8,10 with bitlocker preprovisioning. This update changes the tpm os components and adds the ability to use bitlocker drive encryption with tpm 2. In preprovisioning only scenario, the disk is encrypted with a readable password, the rest of the configuration occurs later when the bitlocker project will officially start, to give you some real world context mdt support this feature since windows 8 but only if you go through the full bitlocker process. October 26, 2014 in windows 7, first you install the operating system and after that has completed you can enable the bitlocker feature and it will encrypt your hard drive. You will though be able to preprovision bitlocker, and have mbam perform backup of bitlocker recovery.
How to enable bitlocker on windows 7 professional edition. I have a task sequence that was working prior to updating to 2012 r2 sp1 and was working post sp1 until i changed boot images. Earlier windows versions dont start after you use pre. Hi there we currently have the dell k2000 imaging our windows 7810 computers with bitlocker preprovisioning enabled before deploying the os to the harddrive. Mdt20 validate bitlocker preprovision encryption this script will create a wait state similar to the sccm 2012 functionality of bitlocker preprovision. Todays tip unlike windows vista and windows 7, windows 8 has the ability to preprovision the system volume during installation. Usedspaceonly encryption is a new feature of bitlocker introduced in windows 8, and therefore you can not use this feature in windows 7.
Windows bitlocker encryption defaults to 128bit aes encryption, but you can choose to use 256bit aes encryption instead. Download protect data with windows 7 bitlocker get started. The resulting encryption targets used space only and is thus very quick. Or does the t440p need to use the legacy set securitychip scripts for preprovisioning. Earlier windows versions dont start after setup windows and configuration manager step if preprovision bitlocker is used with windows 10, version 1511.
To do this, you add the builtin preprovision bitlocker step to your task. When bitlocker is used with a pin to protect startup, pcs such as kiosks cannot be restarted remotely. Behind the scenes, the windows autopilot white glove preprovisioning process leverages the same process used by selfdeploying mode so it has the same tpm attestation requirements, and it requires using a wired ethernet connection to avoid having to configure the language, locale, and keyboard as part of the preprovisioning process, needed before a wifi connection. Every time there is a possible delay or difficulty because of a security feature, there is strong likelihood that users will try to bypass security. In windows 7 if you had a 2tb drive with 1gb used and turned on bitlocker, youd watch as all 2tb were encrypted. Open an elevated command prompt and enter the following command.
Preparing the tpm for bitlocker preprovisioning in. One of the difficult aspects of bitlocker with windows vista and windows 7 is the time it takes to actually encrypt the drive. How can you use bitlocker preprovisioning via an mdt task sequence, and accomplish the following. How to use bitlocker in windows 8 lessons99 guru99. Because the hard drive was preprovisioned with bitlocker, this step completes very quickly. Preprovision bitlocker in task sequence posted on september 22. Only the used drive space is encrypted, and therefore. However, you can preprovision bitlocker on a hard drive and install windows 7 as long as you follow specific steps. After this point the task sequence will reboot and start windows setup. In windows 8, you can boot up into the windows preinstallation environment winpe and bitlocker can be applied to the drive before. The preprovision bitlocker task sequence step in microsoft system center 2012 configuration manager allows you to enable bitlocker from the windows preinstallation environment windows pe prior to operating system deployment.
Here is the explanation from ms for bitlocker preprovisioning. Set xtsaes 256 during windows 10 osd for bitlocker preprovisioning step october 6, 2017 october 6, 2017 contosoniku had finally time to test in my lab what is the exact registry setting that needs to be in place so that during sccm osd the preprovision bitlocker step would accept xtsaes 256 as encryption method. Mbam and bitlocker preprovisioning during osd kraft. Although the article states that preprovisioning is now supported in this version, it does not work in sccm osd. Mbam microsoft bitlocker administration and monitoring is a fantastic tool for managing your bitlocker recovery keys and your tpm passwords. Deploying windows 8 with mbam usedspaceonly encryption. Enabling full disk encryption in microsoft endpoint configuration. The wizard creates the task sequence steps listed in following table. Apply windows image using dism instead of clean install. Preprovision bitlocker fails with invalid command line. Windows vista, windows 7, windows 8, however preprovisioning with vista is not supported.
Windows adk for windows 10 dell k2000 media manager. Hi guys, so a few days ago my windows 10 crashed so i had to format and reinstall windows 7 then upgrade to windows 10, a hard work to do. So i started to search about how to capture the image of c. To use bitlocker preprovisioning, we have three options open to us, mdt 2012, sccm 2012 sp1, or winpe 4. Additional file information for windows 7 and for windows server 2008 r2. Few days ago i wanted to enable bitlocker as a part of os deployment. Has anyone been able to actually get the bitlocker preprovisioning to work with hp machines. Modern windows devices are increasingly protected with bitlocker device encryption out of the box and support sso to seamlessly protect the bitlocker encryption keys from cold boot attacks. Technet mdt20 validate bitlocker preprovision encryption. In configuration manager, the recommended way to preprovision bitlocker on a hard drive and install windows 7 is to create a new task sequence and select install an existing image package from the create new task sequence page of the create task sequence wizard. Because it encrypts the disk even before the os is applied. Bitlocker preprovisioning ts embeded components for c. Since ive enabled preprovisioning of bitlocker our ts went from 30 minute deployment to 1 hour.
Weve tried on both windows 7 and windows 10 but the system reports that the tpm is not in the correct state when the invokembamclientsetup script is run. You will see that the volume where windows should be installed is seen as drive f. We could launch the encryption process during the installation, and even tell our task sequence to wait until the. Preprovisioning the disk will encrypt only used space, so when this step executes, the drive will be encrypted before the operating system has been laid down to the client, saving a ton of time.
If you missed the memo, bitlocker preprovisioning allow disk encryption on the go. Provisioning bitlocker prior to operating system installation. Try out windows autopilot white glove preprovisioning. Set xtsaes 256 during windows 10 osd for bitlocker pre.