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Hi all,
I'm creating a VM scale set from a captured image of a VM that I pre-configured. Basic windows OS with some scripts and data pre-installed.
When I created the scale set all the VM's are blocked by bitlocker asking for USB insertion. There are some complicated "fixes" in the docs, given this is first deploy, there must be some way to ensure that the new scale set can launch.
Any ideas?
Dave
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anonymous userRoberts-9137
Was the VM encrypted when you captured the image? in general we have to decrypt the VM before we generalize and capture it as image. do you still have the keys & secrets with you in keyvault for this VM?
Hi and thanks for the response. It turns out someone in my organization enabled encryption on the source vm -- however, turning it off again and re-capturing the vm resulted in the same issue with bitlocker blocking the boot process. I am currently creating a new vm to configure and create my prototype images from in a new resource group and hope that will resolve the issue.
Either way, all options selected seem to indicate platform managed keys which I think means that the retrieval and use are supposed to be automatic on azure. I saw a long multi-step process to fix individual vms if the keys somehow get blocked, but that is not realistic for a scale set obviously.
DR