Users Guide

Bitlocker Manager v8.17.2

● No technical advisories

New Features and Functionality v1.7.1

● FDE is now supported with smartcard preboot authentication on supported Dell computers running in UEFI boot mode

● FDE is now supported on non-English operating systems:

○ EN - English

○ JA - Japanese

○ ES - Spanish

○ KO - Korean

○ FR - French

○ PT-BR - Portuguese, Brazilian

○ IT - Italian

○ PT-PT - Portuguese, Portugal (Iberian)

○ DE - German

● FDE is available for beta testing in non-production environments on Dell computers running legacy boot mode.

● FDE encryption drivers are now compatible with HVCI .

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Web Protection and Client Firewall features are now supported with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Redstone 3 release).

Resolved Technical Advisories v1.7.1

Encryption Client v8.17.1

● Italian translations have been corrected for the Home/Advanced tab names. [DDPC-5825, DDPC-5826]

● An issue that resulted in a the computer becoming unresponsive when Dell Encryption and Symantec Endpoint Protection

were installed on the same device has been resolved. [DDPC-7808]

● An issue causing the smart card login to fail when the smart card certificate information in the registry missing has been

resolved. [DDPC-7904]

● An issue resulting with an error message of "Unable to generate catalog" after an upgrade from Redstone 2 to Redstone 3

with encryption client installed has been resolved. [DDPC-7946]

Preboot Authentication v8.17.1

● An issue where a popup notification would warn the user to not to turn off the computer during PBA configuation has now

been resolved. [DDPC-7019]

● PBA now shows the smart card certificates and smart card PIN labels. [DDPC-7066, DDPC-7976]

● An issue where PBA would crash when a smart card was plugged in after PBA loaded has been resolved. [DDPC-7676]

Full Disk Encryption v1.1

● An issue where the Windows logo screen was taking a few minutes to appear after FDE had been activated with the machine

set to hibernate and then authenticated on PBA has now been resolved. [DDPC-7804]

● An issue where Full Disk Encryption authenticated back to PBA after a combination of multiple restarts and multiple

hibernations during encryption has now been resolved. [DDPC-7850]

Technical Advisories