{"id":11093,"date":"2019-04-12T14:54:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T13:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.178.50\/?p=11093"},"modified":"2020-01-15T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T08:51:25","slug":"temporarily-bypass-bitlocker-encryption-requirement-for-removable-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/2019\/04\/12\/temporarily-bypass-bitlocker-encryption-requirement-for-removable-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporarily bypass Bitlocker encryption requirement for removable devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"last-modified\">This post was most recently updated on January 15th, 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft allows a system administrator to set a policy that requires the users to enable Bitlocker encyption on any device before it can be written to. This is a pretty foolproof system to ensure that company data is always encrypted (except that you can always turn off encryption on a device, which will decrypt (not destroy) the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s pretty simple in it&#8217;s use and only mildly frustrating as you&#8217;re waiting for the device&#8217;s first encryption (it can take quite a while on a 1TB portable drive).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Except when you want to put something on your Kindle, old iPod Touch or in my case today on a USB flash drive in order to make it UEFI boot compatible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luckily it&#8217;s quite easy to temporarily (until the policy gets refreshed) disable this through a small registry tweak (which requires you to run as local administrator).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply import the following to turn off the policy check:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\nWindows Registry Editor Version 5.00\n[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Policies\\Microsoft\\FVE]\n\"RDVDenyWriteAccess\"=dword:00000000<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Import this snippet to revert back to the secure state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\nWindows Registry Editor Version 5.00\n[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Policies\\Microsoft\\FVE]\n\"RDVDenyWriteAccess\"=dword:00000001<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>This is quite probably a breach in the security policy of your company. Use at your own risk.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was most recently updated on January 15th, 2020 Microsoft allows a system administrator to set a policy that requires the users to enable Bitlocker encyption on any device before it can be written to. This is a pretty foolproof system to ensure that company data is always encrypted (except that you can always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11094,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions\/11094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}