{"id":18625,"date":"2022-01-29T11:35:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T10:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=18625"},"modified":"2022-12-27T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T11:51:31","slug":"bitlocker-and-remote-desktop-rdp-access-is-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/18625\/bitlocker-and-remote-desktop-rdp-access-is-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitlocker and Remote Desktop (RDP) &#8211; Access is denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Access denied error message, when trying to activate Bitlocker on USB device via remote desktop.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today, I wanted to encrypt a USB drive via Remote Desktop. However, I only got access is denied error message.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18626\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_1.png 507w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_1-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By default, Windows does not allow us to encrypt a drive with Bitlocker when connected via RDP. Also, the error message is not very helpful.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"mklink access denied\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/26717\/mklink-access-is-denied\/\">Access is denied<\/a><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t remove your drive during Bitllocker setup<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Do3WrDpBi70\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But there is a solution. We have to open the group policy editor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18628\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_2.png 389w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_2-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we have to navigate to the following setting: <strong>Administrative templates &#8211; System Removable Storage Access &#8211; All Removable Storage: Allow direct access in remote sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18630\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"955\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_3.png 955w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_3-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_3-768x518.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 955px) 100vw, 955px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The settings need to be set to &#8220;Enabled&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18632\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_4.png 439w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_4-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that it is possible to encrypt the drive with Bitlocker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18634\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_5.png 601w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bitlocker_en_5-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access denied error message, when trying to activate Bitlocker on USB device via remote desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1874,1658,1558],"class_list":["post-18625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-bitlocker-en","tag-sicherheit-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}