Device Encryption not working

[unfeomateo]

I am talking about device encryption in windows 8.1 and not bitlocker.


I have 8 Surface 3's. All are on a windows domain. 2 are also setup with a Microsoft account. Only one surface had device encryption running properly. The other 7 said device encryption is temporarily suspended. After a reboot I still get the error.

I then removed device encryption and rebooted on all 8 of the devices. When I go to re-enable device encryption I get en error "something went wrong" even on the one surface that was previously working.

I really can not find any fix on the internet besides someone mentioning a hotfix that does not apply to my system.

This working for others?

Thanks

 

[jnjroach]

Did you reimage them or are you using the stock image? I have 3 and all have Bitlocker (which is the device encryption)...

Or you need to define what you are considering Device Encryption....

I can see the confusion as it says Device Encryption in the MUI Settings and Bitlocker in the traditional control panel....

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/using-bitlocker-drive-encryption-arm

 

[bluegrass]

I was going to ask what encryption software did he purchase since he didn't use the free bit-locker device encryption that comes with the OS.

 

[jnjroach]

If disable Bitlocker on CS enabled machine I believe it also will disable CS as it is a requirement for CS to function correctly...

 

[malberttoo]

If disable Bitlocker on CS enabled machine I believe it also will disable CS as it is a requirement for CS to function correctly...

Oh? So Bitlocker is enabled on the SP3 by default?

 

[jnjroach]

Oh? So Bitlocker is enabled on the SP3 by default?

Yep, on any Connected Standby enabled machine it is required OOB, on a personal machine the recovery key is stored in your OneDrive here:

https://onedrive.live.com/recoverykey

And if it is joined to an Active Directory Domain that is configured correctly it is stored in AD as an AD Object attached to the Computer SID

 

[malberttoo]

Wow, had no idea, thanks!