BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned computers.
BitLocker provides the most protection when used with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 1.2 or later. The TPM is a hardware component installed in many newer computers by the computer manufacturers. It works with BitLocker to help protect user data and to ensure that a computer has not been tampered with while the system was offline.
BitLocker Module will be not installed by default. You want to install them manually. Below are the steps to install them Manually.
We can Install Bit Locker Module in 2 ways one is through the PowerShell (Using Server Module and Dism Module) and another one is through Server Manager Tool(GUI)
Installing BitLocker Module through Powershell(CLI)
Server Module
Go to PowerShell With Administrator access. Give the below command
Install-WindowsFeature BitLocker -IncludeAllSubFeature -IncludeManagementTools -Restart
The above command to complete a full installation of the BitLocker feature with all available features and then rebooting the server at completion.
Dism Module
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName BitLocker, BitLocker-Utilities -All
The Above command installs the Bit Locker and all available management tools. If you don’t required Management tools you can remove “Bitlocker-Utilities“. This command will prompt the user for a reboot the machine.
Installing Bit Locker through Server Manager Tool GUI
Click on Start > Server Manager > Manage > Add Roles and Features
We don’t select Server Roles, as Bit Locker is an Feature
Select the Bit Locker Drive Encryption. You can Also enable the Bit locker Network Encryption which helps you in Network-based key protector.
When you select Bit Locker Drive Encryption the additional features will also be selected.
As the additional Features required the WDS(Windows Deployment Service) it will ask for that also to be installed.
Confirmation will provides the list of features which are been installed on the server. In this some are additional for Managing Bit locker. If you don’t required you can un-select them and install only the required features based on your requirement.
Once You have completed with the Above Procedure GUI or Powershell we can use the below
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References are taken from official Microsoft websites