Personal Computer / BitLocker Recovery Key

Objective

• To instruct on how to recover a BitLocker Recovery Key saved to your Azure AD account for a personally owned computer
  • Does not apply to University Owned Computers
• To instruct saving/backing up of BitLocker Recovery Key properly 
  • Does not apply to University Owned Computers

 User

• Faculty, Staff, and Students

Environment

• 199772: BitLocker Drive Encryption
• 208058: Personal End User Device Placeholder 
• Personally Owned Computer
  • Windows

Rationale

• Miami University is not responsible for the safekeeping of BitLocker keys on personally-owned computers
• Miami University recommends saving the BitLocker key by other secure means
  • In a personal Microsoft Account (non-Miami University)
  • Saving to a file in a secure location not located on the computer
  • Printing the recovery key and saving it in a secure location

Guidelines

 Recover BitLocker Recovery Key from Azure AD

• Only BitLocker Recovery Keys saved to Azure AD can be retrieved
  1. Sign in to the Microsoft portal with your Miami credentials
  2. Select your computer
  3. Click View BitLocker Keys
  4. Click Show recovery key

Back up the recovery key

• At the time of enabling encryption or after encryption
  1. Open the Control Panel
  2. Click View by Small Items or search for BitLocker
  3. Click BitLocker Drive Encryption
  4. Click Backup your recovery key
  5. Select either Save to a file, Print the recovery key, or Microsoft Account (non-Miami University)

Notes

• Finding your BitLocker recovery key in Windows 10