Home windows 11’s April replace is locking some customers out of their PCs
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In abstract:
- PCWorld experiences that Home windows 11’s April replace KB5083769 is locking customers out of their PCs by triggering surprising BitLocker restoration key prompts.
- The problem primarily impacts company gadgets with particular BitLocker Group Coverage configurations, requiring customers to enter restoration keys or contact IT assist for entry.
- Microsoft acknowledges the issue and affords options together with getting into the BitLocker restoration key or performing a Identified Subject Rollback to take away the problematic replace.
Not lengthy after Microsoft launched April’s Patch Tuesday for Home windows 11 did some customers begin complaining of significant issues. The most recent Home windows 11 replace, KB5083769, can lock customers out of their PCs as Home windows requires them to enter their BitLocker restoration key. Anybody who doesn’t have their key can’t use their PC.
Microsoft has acknowledged the problem:
Some gadgets with an unrecommended BitLocker Group Coverage configuration could be required to enter their BitLocker restoration key on the primary restart after putting in this replace.
This situation solely impacts a restricted variety of methods by which ALL of the next circumstances are true. These circumstances are unlikely to be discovered on private gadgets not managed by IT departments:
1. BitLocker is enabled on the OS drive.
2. The Group Coverage “Configure TPM platform validation profile for native UEFI firmware configurations” is configured, and PCR7 is included within the validation profile (or the equal registry secret is set manually).
3. System Data (msinfo32.exe) experiences Safe Boot State PCR7 Binding as “Not Attainable“.
4. The Home windows UEFI CA 2023 certificates is current within the system’s Safe Boot Signature Database (DB), making the system eligible for the 2023‑signed Home windows Boot Supervisor to be made the default.
5. The system is just not already operating the 2023-signed Home windows Boot Supervisor.
In different phrases: The problem is prone to have an effect on solely a small variety of customers who meet the factors above, and the problem is probably to happen on computer systems in company environments. The answer for affected customers is to enter the BitLocker restoration key. If you happen to don’t know your key, you should request it out of your IT assist workforce. On the web page, Microsoft additionally explains how IT departments can resolve the problem.
If mandatory, you or your IT division can carry out a Home windows replace rollback (often called a Identified Subject Rollback) to take away problematic updates KB5083769 or KB5082052 out of your Home windows PC. Notice, nevertheless, that you simply’ll be made susceptible as soon as extra to the safety flaws that had been patched by these updates.
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This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
