Windows PE & BartPE Tools for Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.3.0

Products

• Desktop Email Encryption
• Drive Encryption
• File Share Encryption Powered by PGP Technology

Issue/Introduction

This article contains information on the WinPE & BartPE files when using Symantec Encryption Desktop in a Windows Preinstallation Environment version 2.0.
 

Resolution

The Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) is widely used by IT professionals in Windows environments for installation tasks, deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, diagnosis and recovery.

See the attached Technical Note which provides instructions for creating the following types of WinPE images:

• 32-bit WinPE 1.x
• 32-bit WinPE 2.0
• 64-bit WinPE 2.0

 

In addition, it includes instructions for integrating the Symantec Drive Encryption driver into:

• IBM Lenovo ThinkPad Rescue and Recovery 3.0 and above
• Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console

 

The instructions in the guides for customizing the BartPE or BartPE-based tools was a feature that worked in early versions of Symantec Drive Encryption, but have not been supported for versions 9.12 and beyond and are no longer supported.

 

Note: support for 64-bit WinPE was first introduced with Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.3.

 

You can obtain Windows PE from:
- Windows OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) –the package is available from Universal MSDN and MSFT partners.
- Windows Automated Installation Kit:
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c7d4bc6d-15f3-4284-9123-679830d629f2&displaylang=en) (Windows (AIK).(Windows PE 2.0)
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