The first version of Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) relied on Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for authentication; the current version does not. We strongly encourage the use of the newest version.

This article is a follow-up to our previous post on “+100 Linux Commands Frequently Used by Sysadmins.” Each week, we’ll explore some of the most useful Linux commands for sysadmins and power users.

Microsoft continues to expand Azure’s capabilities, and its latest storage update focuses on performance and recovery speed. The company has now introduced instant access support for incremental ...

In this guide, you’ll explore the power of the wget command, learn its key features, understand how to install it on major Linux distributions, and see practical examples for real-world usage. Wget is ...

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

The disclosure underscores how recovery keys stored in Microsoft’s cloud can be accessed under warrant, even when enterprise data is encrypted. Microsoft gave Windows users’ BitLocker encryption keys ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI in response to a valid legal order, giving investigators the ability to decrypt hard drives that would otherwise have been ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday. Many modern Windows ...

It seems obvious in retrospect, but thanks to the performance gains in modern SSDs, Microsoft has started rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker capabilities in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025.