Can I do this remotely?

[Haole Boy]

Aloha. I have a client that needs to implement full disk encryption. He's running Win 10 Home on his PCs and they all seem to have the TPM chip installed. If possible, I'd prefer to do the Win 10 Home -> Professional upgrade and then enable BitLocker via remote session. Has anyone done this? And do you think this is a good way to do it? (Would save me a lot of driving time, plus time just sitting in an office waiting for Win10 Pro to enable and then BitLocker to do the same)

Mahalo,

Harry Z

 

[Moltuae]

You can do it all remotely. I've done it. I would take a full system backup first though, just in case.

The Home -> Pro upgrade is unlikely to cause you any problems; it's really no different to installing a Windows update. Doing full disk encryption remotely is probably a little riskier but it should go ok. Run a system backup first and make sure you take a copy of the BitLocker Encryption recovery key.

And, lastly, make sure that the 'Run BitLocker system check' option is selected. This essentially performs a 'dry run' after rebooting to make sure that the encryption keys will be accessible during boot-up.

 

[johnrobert]

Takes about 5 minutes to upgrade to Pro, I should know did 20 a couple of weeks ago

 

[britechguy]

Takes about 5 minutes to upgrade to Pro, I should know did 20 a couple of weeks ago

I presume all those machines had SSDs. I've never had an upgrade to Pro go that quickly on a machine with a conventional HDD.

It's not that it takes forever, but it's definitely been a kick it off and check occasionally to see if it's done affair. Way more than 5 minutes, though, and under an hour. I'd say about 35 to 40 minutes, roughly.

 

[brandonkick]

I presume all those machines had SSDs. I've never had an upgrade to Pro go that quickly on a machine with a conventional HDD.

It's not that it takes forever, but it's definitely been a kick it off and check occasionally to see if it's done affair. Way more than 5 minutes, though, and under an hour. I'd say about 35 to 40 minutes, roughly.

I don't deal with the volume that a lot of you do in terms of machines coming in and out, or size of the fleet I manage... but SSD's in my world are more common that not. I push heavily for those who do not have them, saves us both time and money.

I'd suspect your right, John's probably talking about machines with SSD's in em.

 

[Porthos]

but SSD's in my world are more common that not.

For me not so much. $500 consumer computers do not come with them. It is only because of the below I have any at all.

I push heavily for those who do not have them, saves us both time and money.

 

[Haole Boy]

Mahalo for the responses!

Harry Z