Managing your BitLocker recovery key is the most important the main encryption process. The recovery key becomes necessary for you yourself to get access to your computer in the event that you forget your PIN, have certain hardware problems such as a motherboard replacement or hard drive crash, as well as after performing a BIOS update. Without it there's no way to gain access to your data.

Throughout the BitLocker setup process Windows will prompt you to save or print your recovery key.Aka.ms/myrecoverykey As a most useful practice, ITServices recommends that you print your recovery key and keep it stored in a secure location separate from your computer. As an alternative you can save to a USB key and keep that stored in a secure location, or store it on a secure network drive.

If your computer is part of ITServices'Active Directory (AD) domain, you will have one more supply of backup for your recovery key. So long as your computer was joined to the domain just before encrypting with BitLocker, a copy of your recovery key will automatically be stored on our servers.