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Tuesday, March 02, 2010 9:11 AM

What is BitLocker? What does it do? What does it not do?

What is BitLocker? BitLocker lets you encrypt the hard drive(s) on your Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows Server 2008 computer.  BitLocker will not encrypt hard drives for Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows 2003. ...
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Friday, October 24, 2008 8:16 PM

Additional Reference Material on BitLocker

My last post walked through the process of installing and implementing BitLocker on a Hyper-V server. During my research and testing, I found a lot of pretty useful documentation that helped me through the process. I wanted to share this information so...
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Friday, October 24, 2008 8:14 PM

Installing BitLocker on Hyper-V Server

I recently received the following question: "How do you install and use BitLocker on Hyper-V Server". Of course when I read the question, I thought, "That's easy", and then I started thinking about the process. One of the struggles...
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Friday, October 10, 2008 7:34 PM

First Thoughts on Installing Hyper-V Server

I installed Hyper-V server to see what we just released. You can find setup information and the download bits here: http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/overview.mspx The installation took no time at all, I was really impressed with the speed...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:05 PM

Survey: More than 10,000 laptops lost each week at airports

They're most often lost at security checkpoints, the Ponemon Institute says The complete article is here . Check this out: Close to 10,278 laptops are reported lost every week at 36 of the largest U.S. airports, and 65% of those laptops are not reclaimed...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:33 PM

Setting up a Computer to use BitLocker Drive Encryption

Now that we've talked about " What is BitLocker ", let's talk about how you set it up and use it. I won't get into the "nitty gritty", but I'll cover the high points of setting up BitLocker on your machine. You can...
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Monday, June 23, 2008 12:35 AM

Other Forms of Encryption You Need to Consider...

We've already talked about BitLocker, but I wanted to provide an overview of the other encryption solutions for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Server 2003 / 2008. If there's interest, I'll drill into more detail on any / all of these, so please...
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Monday, June 02, 2008 9:32 PM

Bank loses tapes with data on 4.5M clients

Connecticut AG blasts BNY Mellon for failing to notify victims for three months http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9091318&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8 May 30, 2008 (Computerworld) Bank of New York Mellon...
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