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Hi,
I have small program that reads bitlocker data from domain computers. The program uses "manage-bde -status C: -cn [pc name]" command. The thing is that on my admin pc it works - checks data from pc's. But on windows server 2012. It reads half the data and throws an error 0x80070057. There should be encryption method field, protection status, lock status, id field and key protectors. But it just throws an error any ideas?
Screenshot is from cmd not my app so it's something on a server.
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What I would do: don't query computers from remote. Instead, deploy an immediate scheduled task that reads out this status and writes to a logfile.
For further info, refer to my article https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/33771/We-have-bitlocker-so-we-need-MBAM-too.html
Ok, but if I would wanna stay by my solution. Can you explain me that error? What causes it? And is there a way to fixed it? If there is no way to fix it I will try different approach.
I am not able to reproduce this error since we got rid of OS' older than Win10/server 2016 altogether. Maybe it's because server 2012 does not understand the encryption algorithm XTS_AES, which is the default for win10, and because of that crashes when reading out the configuration? Who knows. Try from a server 2016 or from win10 to query others from remote.
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Hi
You could try checking the file system, file system metadata and fixing the errors on the disk.
Open elevated command prompt,
type chkdsk /r /b /f on the faulty drive
reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chkdsk
I hope this information above can help you.
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Hi thanks all, I checked almost all pcs from powershell. The ones that have method encryption = Hardware Encryption Returns full data. I don't know why. Perhaps @MTG Marinetechnik is right "and server 2012 does not understand the encryption algorithm XTS_AES". It would explain why from my pc it works flawlessly and on server not. And I don't think disc is corrupted becouse I checked on second Domain Controller and it's the same - and it's also Server 2012. I think the case is closed it's 2012 fault. Again Thanks guys.