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Which Windows Licenses are required to manage BitLocker through Intune
License Confusion for Managing BitLocker via Intune Scenario: We are managing BitLocker through Intune, with recovery keys backed up to Entra ID for both Hybrid and Entra ID-joined devices. Our dev...
My take on this is from this document https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating-system-security/data-protection/bitlocker/ The note says "Licensing requirements for BitLocker enablement are different from the licensing requirements for BitLocker management."
In the second document there is a table that shows the Windows editions support for BitLocker vs the BitLocker management license entitlements. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating-system-security/data-protection/bitlocker/configure?tabs=common#windows-edition-and-licensing-requirements
I.e. You can manually enable BitLocker because the OS supports it but cannot "manage" without the enterprise license