To obtain the BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer tool for Windows XP/Windows Server 2003, contact a Microsoft Support Professional. How to obtain the BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer tool for Windows XP BitLocker Drive Encryption must have been enabled on the Windows Vista-based computers.Windows Vista-based computers must be joined to the domain.The domain must be configured to store BitLocker recovery information.Additionally, you can right-click a domain container and then search for a BitLocker recovery password across all the domains in the Active Directory forest (multiple domains).īefore you can use the BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer tool to view BitLocker recovery passwords, the following conditions must be true: After you install this tool, you can examine the Properties dialog box of a computer object to view the corresponding BitLocker recovery passwords.

The BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer tool is an extension for the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in. You can use this tool to help recover data that's stored on a volume that has been encrypted by using BitLocker. The BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer lets you locate and view BitLocker recovery passwords that are stored in AD DS. You must be a domain administrator, or you must be granted sufficient rights by a domain administrator. To use this tool to retrieve BitLocker Drive Encryption passwords, you must use an account that has sufficient rights.

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