Susan Bradley. Azure AD BitLocker keys. If you don’t have access to Azure AD, you can use on-premises Active Directory to manage your BitLocker recovery keys.

Navigate to Devices > BitLocker keys and search using the recovery key ID shown on the recovery screen. If saved in Azure AD, you’ll see the device name, key ID, and recovery key.

The second and most common way to bypass the BitLocker Recovery screen is using a recovery key. This key is 48 digits long and can be found in whichever source you used to activate BitLocker.

If Bitlocker says that Your recovery couldn’t be saved to a location and asks you to change it, follow the instructions mentioned below. 1. Press Windows Key + R combination and put gpedit.msc ...

Microsoft says that it will not use the recovery key for any purpose in its privacy policy, but legal coercion, hacking, or even bad actors within the company might undermine that promise.

If you have your BitLocker recovery key handy, just enter it in the appropriate field. You should then be able to boot into Windows with no trouble. If you don't know the key offhand, ...

If you’re using BitLocker and you know your recovery key, no problem—just enter it and you should boot up normally with no repeat issues. At least, that’s what Microsoft’s bug message says ...

For now, users should seek out and enter their BitLocker recovery key. The company's support site has detailed instructions for recovering a BitLocker key.

Microsoft updated its guide and tools available to recovery PCs affected by the CrowdStrike outage. It is now possible to recover some PCs without using BitLocker recovery keys, though you need ...