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
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