Windows 11 Windows 11 users are unable to open EFS encrypted files when not connected to the company network

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Pierre de Kock

In recent days we became aware of a behavioural issue that seems Windows 11 related. We make use of EFS encryption for the local files on user devices, but users seem to lose access to those encrypted files when they are not on the company network. As soon as the users connect to VPN or directly to the company's domain network then they have access to the encrypted files.This is different to the Windows 10 behaviour where users always had access to their encrypted files, even if they were not connected to the company network.We have checked that the encryption certificate with the correspondin

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