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I would suggest you create an MBAM section in the task sequence, filtering on laptops or whatever criteria you require and add the steps below to this section.
High Level:
- DISABLE ALL BITLOCKER PRE-PROVISION STEPS
- DISABLE ROOT CERTIFICATE UPDATE
- STOP THE MBAM SERVICE
- ADD ENCRYPTIONMETHOD
- ADD OSENCRYPTIONTYPE
- ADD ENCRYPTIONMETHODWITHXTSOS
- ADD ENACTONFIRSTLOGINREQUIRED
- REMOVE STARTUP DELAY
- START MBAM SERVICE
- FORCE USER TO SELECT A NEW PIN ON FIRST LOGIN
- RUN INVOKE-MBAMCLIENTDEPLOYMENT.PS1 SCRIPT
- RE-ENABLE ROOT CERTIFICATE UPDATE
1. DISABLE ALL BITLOCKER PRE-PROVISION STEPS
Contrary to what I have read elsewhere, the pre-provision step in the task sequence isn’t necessary. In fact, it’ inclusion will cause the error code 1. These steps should be disabled.
2. DISABLE ROOT CERTIFICATE UPDATE
This is a strange one but I have had trouble getting the Invoke-MbamClientDeployment.ps1 to run properly without first disabling the certificate update mechanism in Windows. Trust me, just do it, reboot, run the rest of the steps and make sure you remember to re-enable afterwards.
REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot /v DisableRootAutoUpdate /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
3. STOP THE MBAM SERVICE
The assumption is that you have installed the MBAM 2.5 SP1 client with the August 2017 hotfix by this stage so there will be an MBAM Agent service running on the machine.
Net stop mbamagent
4. ENCRYPTIONMETHOD
Now I am recreating what worked for me here and despite my requirement for XTSAES256 the below setting seems to work fine for this in my task sequence. However evidence elsewhere suggests the DWORD value should be 7. Feel free to test in your own environment though and let me know how you get on.
REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\FVE /v EncryptionMethod /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
5. ADD OSENCRYPTIONTYPE
We want used space only as this is quickest. See here for other values. Be careful though – if you want the PIN prompt to appear at first logon the disk has to be ‘fully encrypted’, ie with used space only OR full disk. If the disk is still encrypting when the user logs on, they won’t be prompted for the PIN.
REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\FVE /v OSEncryptionType /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
6. ADD ENCRYPTIONMETHODWITHXTSOS
This is where * I believe * stage 3 gets overwritten (tbc). Essentially this will set the OS encryption to XTSAES256.
REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\FVE /v EncryptionMethodWithXtsOs /t REG_DWORD /d 7 /f
7. ADD ENACTONFIRSTLOGINREQUIRED
Call the MBAMClientUI on first login. Technically this shouldn't be needed as I have a step further down which will call this anyway but no harm in adding. REG ADD HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MBAM /v EnactOnFirstLoginRequired /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
8. REMOVE STARTUP DELAY
Force MBAM client to wake up within a minute.
REG ADD HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MBAM /v NoStartupDelay /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
9. RE-START MBAM SERVICE
Net start mbamagent
10. FORCE USER TO SELECT A NEW PIN ON FIRST LOGIN
This adds a setting to the default user so that every NEW user that logs onto the machine gets prompted for a new MBAM PIN for startup. Note, this will only fire if the disk is fully encrypted to type, ie used space only or full disk. Since we’re aiming for used space only here, disk encryption is pretty quick but it still needs to complete before the prompt will appear. If you log on before encryption is complete then the automatic prompt won’t appear and you will instead need to rely on GPO.
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -command "reg load HKLM\DefaultUser C:\Users\Default\NTUSER.DAT; New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\Defaultuser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce' -Name PromptForPIN -Value '""C:\Program Files\Microsoft\MDOP MBAM\MBAMClientUI.exe"""' -Type String; reg unload HKLM\DefaultUser"
11. RUN INVOKE-MBAMCLIENTDEPLOYMENT.PS1 SCRIPT
The script itself. Note the encryption method, Unspecified. Because we have specified the encryption method earlier, the XTSAES256 encryption is automatically derived from that. Strangely, I couldn’t get this script to work unless I used this parameter and manually set the reg entry. Also note, I am running the script from the local installation of the MBAM client. This ensures that I am running the script that is aligned to that version of the client, ie it should contain any updates provided by any client upgrades you’ve applied, eg August 2017 update.
powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\MDOP MBAM\Invoke-MbamClientDeployment.ps1" https://MBAMSERVER.local/MBAMRecoveryAndHardwareService/CoreService.svc -EncryptionMethod UNSPECIFIED
12. RE-ENABLE ROOT CERTIFICATE UPDATE
Don’t forget to re-enable this otherwise you’ll end up with all sorts of certificate errors when trying to reach HTTPS sites.