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Temporarily bypass Bitlocker encryption requirement for removable devices

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

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Backing up your BitLocker keys to Active Directory

Ok.. So I've learned the hard way that BitLocker doesn't automatically backup the security keys to Active Directory if you join the domain AFTER you've encrypted your machine. Or if you start encryption before the group policy has been pushed to your machine. And backup of keys to Skydrive doesn't