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Trevor Wilcockson
Aug 21, 2017Copper Contributor
Disk Encryption
Hi, Does any know if you can encrypt a disk when using the 2016-Datacenter-Server-Core image from Microsoft? When I try it comes up with an error "Failed to configure bitlocker as expected. Excep...
Trevor Wilcockson
Aug 21, 2017Copper Contributor
Hi,
Yes I have followed this guide but it still reports the same error message.
Trevor
Kent Gaardmand
Aug 21, 2017Iron Contributor
Also i found another guide that i prefer to the last one i sent.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security-center/security-center-disk-encryption
- Trevor WilcocksonAug 23, 2017Copper Contributor
Hi,
I tried all that. It would appear disk encryption does not work on the 2016 server core image as I used the 2016-Datacenter image and the disk encryption worked fine.
Trevor
- Kent GaardmandAug 23, 2017Iron Contributor
I found this, it has a troubleshooting 2016 core.
it appears a feature is missing from core by default.
On Windows Server 2016 Server Core, the bdehdcfg component is not available by default. This component is required by Azure Disk Encryption.