How to convert azure secret value to bitlocker key for disk.

Question

Hi,

I have a data disk of my windows VM with ADE encryption, which I'm looking to attach to a new VM when I try to open the disk it's asking for a BitLocker password which I'm not able to convert, I have the secret value, looking forward to a possible solution where I can convert my secret value to BitLocker key.

Most of my client VMs are windows based and we have enabled ADE for the same and in the future, we look to the attached possible data disks, the bottleneck here is to convert the secret values to BitLocker key.

Request to guide me, where we can convert these secret values to BitLocker keys.

Thanks,

Answer 1

@RSaw-Knack Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, Thank you for posting your query here!

It's not possible to convert the secret values into a bit-locker key, so if you have a DATA disks encrypted in the VM A and then you want to move the DATA disk to a VM B, you cannot just move the DATA disk because is already encrypted . if you want to move the DATA disk to other VM, so you need to decrypt it first but also it's not possible with ADE decrypt a particular DATA disk, So you need to disable ADE in the whole VM and detach the disk and then encrypt it again

Hope this helps!

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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