Users Guide

Legacy Boot Mode FDE
For beta testing in non-production environments
● An issue causing the system to fail with a black screen after activating PBA and logging in to Windows has been resolved.
[DDPC-6915]
● Added 05/2018 - Operating system Feature updates are supported with Full Disk Encryption. [DDPC-7527]
● Resolved an issue in Legacy BIOS based Full Disk Encryption preview where single sign-on devices from the Pre-Boot
Authentication environment into Windows was failing. [DDPC-7944]
Technical Advisories v8.17.2
Encryption Enterprise for Windows
● After installing the encryption client and opening a report of the file with WSScan, unencrypted files have " \\?\" characters
at the beginning of their directories. Only a cosmetic issue and has no effect on the system or files." [DDPC-8190]
● In some cases, after installing or upgrading encryption client, a message results of "Backup keys operation still not performed
successfully..." once policies have been set. The current workaround is to reboot the machine. [DDPC-8316]
Preboot Authentication v8.17.2
● No technical advisories.
SED Management v8.17.2
● No technical advisories.
Full Disk Encryption v1.1
● In rare situations, the machine stays in a locked state on Pre-Boot Authentication screen after activating FDE and rebooting
the machine. The current workaround is to recover and login to Windows for FDE activation to resume automatically.
[DDPC-8299]
● In rare situations, full disk encryption fail to activate on a UEFI machine. Current workaround is restart the system for FDE
activation to resumes automatically. [DDPC-8302]
● The FDE script is blocked by the Encryption client. The current workaround is to exclude \ProgramData\Dell\Dell Data
Protection from block on scripts before FDE activation. [DDPC-8371]
Legacy Boot Mode FDE
For beta testing in non-production environments
● In rare occurrences, booting to a 32-bit machine after activating FDE, the machine may fail to boot. [DDPC-8267]
Bitlocker Manager v8.17.2
● No technical advisories
New Features and Functionality v8.17.1
● FDE is now supported with smartcard preboot authentication on supported Dell computers running in UEFI boot mode
● FDE is now supported on non-English operating systems:
○ EN - English
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Technical Advisories