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How do I create and distribute an institutional key or user?

  • 1.  How do I create and distribute an institutional key or user?

    Posted Jun 25, 2015 02:37 PM

    We are going through a mass upgrade of our Mac infrestructure and need to decrypt a few thousand systems to do so. I am interested in creating a "God" acccount in Symnatec Encrytion Server so we can script this process to decrypt the drive run the update and then re-encrypt. How would I create this account and then push this user to every system?

     



  • 2.  RE: How do I create and distribute an institutional key or user?

    Posted Jun 28, 2015 04:19 AM

    Hi ssaporito,

    This can be done using a WDE Administrator account to the encrypted disk in a managed environment.

    HOW TO: Encrypt a Disk with WDE Administrator Passphrase by Default

    https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH186055.html

    Even for the encrypted disk you can add a user in the Consumer Policy and update the policy on the client will add a WDE Admin user to the access list of the disk.