Enable Bitlocker Recovery Password Viewer In Active Directory -

He closed his laptop, walked to his car, and drove home. The BitLocker recovery password viewer in Active Directory wasn’t just enabled now. It was ready. And next time a VP called on a Friday night, the answer would take thirty seconds, not three hours.

But he knew it wasn’t enough. The default AD schema didn’t have the right attributes unless someone had run BitLockerADBackup.vbs or extended the schema with adprep . On a whim, he opened PowerShell as an admin and ran:

And there it was: msFVE-RecoveryPassword . He closed his laptop, walked to his car, and drove home

cscript BitLockerADBackup.wsf /schema The command prompt blinked. Then: Schema extension completed successfully.

“Now reboot,” he whispered to no one. And next time a VP called on a

That was the real story. Not the code. Not the schema. The silence of a properly configured system.

He found the setting: Choose how BitLocker-protected operating system drives can be recovered. On a whim, he opened PowerShell as an

He opened ADSI Edit, found the CN=BitLocker Recovery,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=contoso,DC=com , and set the security descriptor. Then he built a simple PowerShell tool—a one-liner, really—that any help desk tech could run: