BitLocker Drive Encryption technology helps protect data on your local and external drives by encrypting the contents of logical volumes. In this article, we’ll have a look at two ways to extract data from a BitLocker-encrypted partition. The first involves decrypting the BitLocker-protected partition using the standard Windows tools. The second way suggests that the file system of the encrypted drive is corrupted (the area of the drive where BitLocker stores its metadata is damaged) or that Windows won’t boot.
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Microsoft Key Management Service (KMS) Volume Activation FAQs
June 1, 2023This article describes how KMS technology works and how you can use it to activate Microsoft volume licensing products. The Microsoft Volume Licensing program allows enterprise customers to deploy an…
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Configuring Event Viewer Log Size on Windows
September 21, 2024Windows Event Viewer Logs store useful information that is needed when analyzing the status of services and applications in Windows, troubleshooting errors, and auditing security events. By default, the sizes…
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How to Detect Who Changed the File/Folder NTFS Permissions on Windows
March 11, 2024In some cases, the administrator needs to find out which process (program) or user has changed the NTFS permissions on a specific folder or file on a Windows file server.…
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Enable Single Sign-On (SSO) Authentication on RDS Windows Server
May 23, 2023Single Sign-On (SSO) allows an authenticated (signed-on) user to access other domain services without having to re-authenticate (re-entering a password) and without using saved credentials (including RDP). SSO can be…
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Allow Non-admin Users RDP Access to Windows Server
March 16, 2024By default, the RDP access to the desktop of Windows Server member servers or Active Directory domain controllers is restricted to users added to the local Administrators or Domain Admins…
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Fix: BSOD Error 0x0000007B (INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE) on Windows
March 17, 2024Error 0x0000007B (INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE) at computer startup indicates that Windows cannot access the boot drive because a required driver is missing or the disk is corrupt.
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View Success and Failed Local Logon Attempts on Windows
May 2, 2023When investigating various incidents, an administrator needs to know who logged on to a particular Windows computer and when. You can get a history of user logons in a domain…
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Fix: “Something Went Wrong” Error When Installing Teams
March 13, 2024Microsoft recently released a new WebView2-based version of MS Teams for Windows. The switch from the Electron engine to WebView2 runtime has significantly improved the performance of Teams (almost doubled)…
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Querying Windows Event Logs with PowerShell
May 2, 2023The Windows Event Log is an important tool for administrators to track errors, warnings, and other information reports that are logged by the operating system, its components, or programs. You…