Then, manually look up the recovery key in the BitLocker UI for that drive.
She began to type, each command a precise incantation.
If you want to see the recovery key for a specific drive:
At 11:47 PM, the CEO had accidentally triggered a BitLocker recovery on his primary laptop. The 48-digit recovery key, printed on a yellow sticky note, had been “somewhere on his desk.” After an hour of searching through piles of quarterly reports, he called Maya in a panic.
He recited the numbers, his voice trembling with relief. “That’s it! That’s the one!”
(Get-BitLockerVolume -MountPoint "C:").KeyProtector | Where-Object $_.KeyProtectorType -eq 'RecoveryPassword' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty RecoveryPassword Use code with caution. Method 3: Backup the Key to Active Directory (AD)
# Retrieve the BitLocker recovery key $recoveryKey = Get-BitLockerRecoveryKey -ComputerName $computerName -RecoveryKeyId $recoveryKeyId
Then, manually look up the recovery key in the BitLocker UI for that drive.
She began to type, each command a precise incantation.
If you want to see the recovery key for a specific drive:
At 11:47 PM, the CEO had accidentally triggered a BitLocker recovery on his primary laptop. The 48-digit recovery key, printed on a yellow sticky note, had been “somewhere on his desk.” After an hour of searching through piles of quarterly reports, he called Maya in a panic.
He recited the numbers, his voice trembling with relief. “That’s it! That’s the one!”
(Get-BitLockerVolume -MountPoint "C:").KeyProtector | Where-Object $_.KeyProtectorType -eq 'RecoveryPassword' | Select-Object -ExpandProperty RecoveryPassword Use code with caution. Method 3: Backup the Key to Active Directory (AD)
# Retrieve the BitLocker recovery key $recoveryKey = Get-BitLockerRecoveryKey -ComputerName $computerName -RecoveryKeyId $recoveryKeyId
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