Hoping someone can tell me if there is any special mojo that can make this scenerio work.
My situation:
I enable Bitlocker encryption as part of my Task Sequence dpeloyment of Windows 7. I am now diving into USMT (hardlink hopefully) and I quickly realize that i need to "unlock" the bitlocker drive before I can USMT it. Makes sense. The disabling
Bitlocker as you all know works great when the TS is executed from within Windows. Where it breaks down for me is that I would like to automate this process even when starting from Windows PE PXE boot
I thought I would be slick and create a vbscript that grabs the enryption key from AD and passes it to manage-bde to unlock the drive. This works GREAT if you know the computer name (which I was specifying directly in my testing).
The obvious conundrum here is that I cannot retreive the computer name say from the local registry hive, to then pass to the script that queries AD and gets the recovery password since..the drive is locked!
I was really hoping I could query SMBIOS on the machine and take some bit of data and coorelate that to an attribute on the AD object to get the name but have come up empty.
My thought was that I could (although not really wanting to) add a front end the TS that asked for the computername, then runs the script to unlock the Bitlocker partition.
Anyone else have any tricks up their sleeve?
Thanks!!