4. Save to a Microsoft Account. If you are logged in to your Windows 11 PC using your Microsoft account, BitLocker can save recovery keys to your Microsoft account in the cloud. By choosing the “Save ...

If you set up Windows 11 normally with a Microsoft account, your BitLocker recovery keys will automatically be backed up to your Microsoft account, which is frankly, the best way to do it.

Last month's BitLocker Recovery bug should be a wake-up call for everyone who owns a Windows PC. Make sure you have a copy of your recovery key so you can avoid being locked out of your data files.

If you're running Windows, you've probably run into the BitLocker Recovery screen at some point. Here's everything you need to know about the Microsoft program.

To combat that, device encryption stores a recovery key. For domain accounts, the recovery key is stored in Active Directory, but in the common consumer case, using a Microsoft account, it is ...

When you turn on BitLocker you’re forced to make a backup of your recovery key, but you get three options: Save it in your Microsoft account, save it to a USB stick, or print it.

When I last looked at BitLocker I dismissed it as it had no auditing options, the new version can connect to Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring so I have been tasked with ...

A patch to fix the patch that caused admins to scamper for their recovery keys Microsoft has fixed a problem that sent affected Windows PCs scurrying into BitLocker recovery.… The problem, which ...

In Windows RT you can't turn BitLocker off and you shouldn't try to, and you don't have to ask an administrator for your recovery key because it's on SkyDrive; telling RT users to do either of ...

Microsoft said Recover from WinPE is not entirely automatic for some users, such as if BitLocker encryption is in use, as the recovery key will need to be entered manually. Microsoft’s ...