BitLocker – Josiah Pewterbaugh

Enable the TPM chip for Lenovo workstations via WMI and PowerShell

Published March 5, 2020September 21, 2016 by Josiah Pewterbaugh

For whatever reason the TPM chip was being set to disabled during our imaging process/checklist. This became an issue when we started rolling out MBAM (BitLocker). In order to remediate this we deployed a package using SCCM and PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit that would enable the TPM chip. Thankfully Lenovo makes it easy to modify […]

No entries in MBAM (BitLocker) event logs

Published March 5, 2020September 19, 2016 by Josiah Pewterbaugh

I came across an odd issue during my MBAM (BitLocker) rollout. A small handful of workstations didn’t have any entries in the MBAM (BitLocker) event logs (admin or operational) and if you ran on these workstations you would get the following error: This error prevented MBAM (BitLocker) from automatically encrypting the hard drive.