Hi Jlevine, This is what I was able to find so far regarding BitLocker: How it might effect the Install: ------------------------------------------ We have seen cases where encyption software blocks the installation and configuration process for SAS. We have also seen cases, where the install may go okay, but then SAS will crash when you try to perform an initial launch after installing for the first time. With that said, we typically recommend that any encryption software be completely disabled or turned off prior to deploying SAS software. Please read this short overview in the documentation on SAS/SECURE and SAS Encryption here: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/secref/62092/HTML/default/viewer.htm#cryptotopic.htm http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/secref/63052/HTML/default/viewer.htm#titlepage.htm Using 3rd party encryption with or without SAS Encryption is going to cause SAS to be slower or crash. SAS Technical Support does not have any type of official statement regarding support and use of SAS 9.2 or SAS 9.3 on Windows 7 Bitlocker, or any other encryption software package. However, we have seen cases specifically where Bitlocker will block the installation\configuration process for SAS, or prevent SAS from launching. How it might effect performance: --------------------------------------------- SAS will most likely have a problem reading the data in the encrypted folder. While we do not have an official response regarding the use of third party encryption software with SAS we have seen many instances where SAS was not able to read the encrypted data set or file. Using 3rd party encryption software such as Bitlocker most probably not have a positive impact on SAS performance. In some cases it is severe enough to cause I/O errors and crash the SAS program. If you feel strongly about using Bitlocker you may want to first test the interaction with SAS to determine whether or not you will encounter a problem and if it will work in your environment. If there is a problem with using SAS with Bitlocker it is not something that SAS technical support can resolve or support. SAS/Secure will not encrypt the folder. SAS/Secure provides the following types of encryption: Over-the-wire encryption protects SAS data and data while in transit. Passwords in transit to and from SAS servers are encrypted or encoded. On-disk encryption protects data at rest. Passwords in configuration files and the metadata are encrypted or encoded. Configuration files and metadata repository data sets are also host protected. I hope this information is helpful. Have a wonderful day, Sunshine
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