Anyone use BitLocker? Why?

[Mark Conrad]

Just curious, is the BitLocker feature in Windows-7 Ultimate
worthwhile, or is it just a sales gimmick?

Mark-

 

[Seth]

Just curious, is the BitLocker feature in Windows-7 Ultimate
worthwhile, or is it just a sales gimmick?

I'm using it. Makes it so that removing the drive from my laptop is
useless. Put the drive into a caddy on another machine and the files are
not accessible.

 

[Andrew]

Just curious, is the BitLocker feature in Windows-7 Ultimate
worthwhile, or is it just a sales gimmick?

Mark-

I use it because MS forces us to use it on any MS domain joined machine.
Many non business machines do not have a TPM chip, and therefore cannot use
bitlocker on their main drive.
You can enable it on removable devices, if you are worried about losing one,
or need to secure data.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2101557_trusted-platform-module-tpm-chip.html

 

[Seth]

I use it because MS forces us to use it on any MS domain joined machine.
Many non business machines do not have a TPM chip, and therefore cannot
use bitlocker on their main drive.

Unless you actually work for MS, they aren't forcing you to use it. You're
system administrators are forcing it.

 

[Andrew]

Unless you actually work for MS, they aren't forcing you to use it.
You're system administrators are forcing it.

Bing, Bing... MSIT forces us to use it.

 

[Seth]

Bing, Bing... MSIT forces us to use it.

Well, that makes sense then. I haven't had any complaints with it. Neither
my TAM or any of the engineers at MS I work with have said anything bad and
I'm pretty good and telling the difference between them being genuine about
how good something is vs. just spouting the company line cause they can't
say otherwise.

 

[Mark Conrad]

Many non business machines do not have a TPM chip, and
therefore cannot use bitlocker on their main drive.

Okay, glad I have a choice, whether to use bitlocker or not.

I run expensive medical software on a Windows-7
partition of my MacBook Pro, so far have not run into
any Windows feature which would _not_ run on
my Mac.

Am not geeky, so do not know whether the Mac has
a TPM chip or not, guess I will find out when I try
to run bitlocker.

Mark-