Situatie

Although we have multiple means of tracking the Bitlocker encryption status, such as the progress bar that appears by default, or using the manage-bde-status command, we may note that the latter requires periodic use to find out the encryption percentage. A solution is to use a for loop with timeout in cmd.

Simptome

1. Open command prompt as Administrator.

2. Enter the command:
for /l %n in () do manage-bde -status&timeout /nobreak 10

If a slower update rate is desired, for example instead of 10 seconds, 30+ can be used; using a value less than 5 seconds will not help significantly and may also make it difficult to track the encryption status (even when it is complete).

An example of an additional application of this method is the ability to track the encryption status of a network device using psexec, ideally with the -s argument to receive the information from the “system user” perspective of the monitored computer.

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