{"id":2982,"date":"2013-08-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/08\/24\/powertip-use-powershell-to-get-bitlocker-recovery-key\/"},"modified":"2013-08-24T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-get-bitlocker-recovery-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-get-bitlocker-recovery-key\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Get BitLocker Recovery Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to get the BitLocker recovery key.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I quickly find my BitLocker recovery key?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Jason Walker, Microsoft PFE, says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">From an elevated Windows PowerShell console, use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-BitlockerVolume<\/strong>&nbsp;function, select&nbsp;<strong>-MountPoint<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>C<\/strong>, and choose the&nbsp;<strong>KeyProtector<\/strong>&nbsp;property:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">(Get-BitLockerVolume -MountPoint C).KeyProtector<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to get the BitLocker recovery key. &nbsp;How can I quickly find my BitLocker recovery key? &nbsp;Jason Walker, Microsoft PFE, says: From an elevated Windows PowerShell console, use the&nbsp;Get-BitlockerVolume&nbsp;function, select&nbsp;-MountPoint&nbsp;C, and choose the&nbsp;KeyProtector&nbsp;property: (Get-BitLockerVolume -MountPoint C).KeyProtector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,338,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-jason-walker","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to get the BitLocker recovery key. &nbsp;How can I quickly find my BitLocker recovery key? &nbsp;Jason Walker, Microsoft PFE, says: From an elevated Windows PowerShell console, use the&nbsp;Get-BitlockerVolume&nbsp;function, select&nbsp;-MountPoint&nbsp;C, and choose the&nbsp;KeyProtector&nbsp;property: (Get-BitLockerVolume -MountPoint C).KeyProtector<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}