If you dutifully installed all the Patch Tuesday updates from earlier this month, and you are on Windows 11, you may have introduced a problem. Microsoft has put up a support document saying that you might experience issues with Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption:
“After installing the July 2024 Windows security update, released July 9, 2024 (KB5040442), you might see a BitLocker recovery screen upon booting your device. This screen does not commonly appear after a Windows update. You are more likely to face this issue if you have the Device Encryption option enabled in Settings under Privacy & Security -> Device encryption. Resulting from this issue, you might be prompted to enter the recovery key from your Microsoft account to unlock your drive.”
Right now Microsoft is investigating the issue. But the only mitigation as there is no fix for this is that you have to enter the BitLocker recovery key. Hopefully you know how to retrieve those recovery keys as if you can’t, you’re basically locked out of your computer. Now I don’t know how widespread this is, but clearly it’s happening frequently enough that Microsoft needed to say something. And I for one not only hope it’s not as impacting as the CrowdStrike dumpster fire, but Microsoft handles this better than CrowdStrike as well.
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Microsoft May Be Having A CrowdStrike Moment With Issues Related To BitLocker Encryption
If you dutifully installed all the Patch Tuesday updates from earlier this month, and you are on Windows 11, you may have introduced a problem. Microsoft has put up a support document saying that you might experience issues with Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption:
“After installing the July 2024 Windows security update, released July 9, 2024 (KB5040442), you might see a BitLocker recovery screen upon booting your device. This screen does not commonly appear after a Windows update. You are more likely to face this issue if you have the Device Encryption option enabled in Settings under Privacy & Security -> Device encryption. Resulting from this issue, you might be prompted to enter the recovery key from your Microsoft account to unlock your drive.”
Right now Microsoft is investigating the issue. But the only mitigation as there is no fix for this is that you have to enter the BitLocker recovery key. Hopefully you know how to retrieve those recovery keys as if you can’t, you’re basically locked out of your computer. Now I don’t know how widespread this is, but clearly it’s happening frequently enough that Microsoft needed to say something. And I for one not only hope it’s not as impacting as the CrowdStrike dumpster fire, but Microsoft handles this better than CrowdStrike as well.
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