How can I tell if BitLocker is successfully enabled on remote hosts?

Question

All machines from my network should have BitLocker successfully applied to them.

Is there a way that I can remotely query the machines to see if:

Ideally I am looking for a way to do it without admin rights.

score 15 · Answer 1 · edited May 25 '20 at 09:32

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With this PowerShell command, you can check the BitLocker status on a volume:

Manage-bde -status -cn <computername/ip> <drive letter>

Where the -cn argument is optional. Examples:

Manage-bde -status C:
Manage-bde -status -cn 192.168.1.2 C:

The command can also be run remotely.

edited May 25 '20 at 09:32

Luc

answered Jul 20 '15 at 15:02

pineappleman

This seems to be not working without admin rights. – Andreas Schwab Jan 13 '20 at 13:16
This doesn't work on a large majority of Dell machines I maintain... – KolonUK May 14 '21 at 11:53

score 11 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 16 '16 at 17:14

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For a remote host:

manage-bde -status -computername **computername**

edited Aug 16 '16 at 17:14

answered Aug 16 '16 at 16:34

jlharris

score 8 · Answer 3 · edited May 10 '20 at 20:25

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That is the command that gives the information you need.

Manage-bde -status C:

A screenshot of a console window, showing the output of the "manage-bde -status c:" command.

edited May 10 '20 at 20:25

DxTx

answered Jul 20 '15 at 15:17

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Thanks for posting an answer on our site. It would be highly beneficial to summarise what exactly is in the image you posted, so that users with vision impairments can benefit from it too. – Steve Dodier-Lazaro Aug 16 '16 at 17:15

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 31 '18 at 21:25

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manage-bde -status -computername "COMPUTERNAME" c:

The computer must be on and on the network however, does not work for machines out of network or that are off.

answered Jul 31 '18 at 21:25

GoldenWest

also this will not query all drives, notice the c: that is just for the drive, for multiple drives I recommend querying the drives and then using the last part as a variable with a for each loop – GoldenWest Aug 03 '18 at 17:50
the answer above that forgoes the C: will query multiple drives – GoldenWest Aug 03 '18 at 17:53

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