Secured eDisk Protect unattended reboot

Applies to:
Secured eDisk Protect

Problem:
We have encrypted our harddrives with Secured eDisk Protect and we need to do a unattended reboot. How do we bypass the Preboot login?

Solution:
You need to create a so-called dummy login which, together with a script, will automatically bypass the Preboot during next reboot.
We have created a default script for you which you can download from here:
PD_script.vbs

If you have a look in the Administration Guide, section Unattended Reboot and Automatic Pre-boot (APB) Authentication page 164/220. You can see the details of the script and you can easily change it to suit your environment.
The script needs to be run once on the client computer.
You need to create a temporary windows user in the policy in advance. In the example, we have created a user called "test" with the password "test", who is a member of the domain CZDEMO. The actual Windows password can be set to anything.

What the script then does, is to temporarily add a user and approve the login in the PBA for this user after the next reboot. In the attached script file this is set to 2, meaning that the next 2 reboots will automatically bypass the PBA. Important to remember though is that it will not log you into Windows, only the Preboot.
The user and password is of course something that you need to change, and also do not forget to set the correct parameters for your user and your domain.

It is recommended that you test the solution on a computer which you can physically control in order to get a feeling for how it works.