Windows File Encryption
Decryption
- download PSTools from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec
- This can be used to run commands as the SYSTEM user
- You need to do this to decrypt the database data files / elastic search data files
- Cmmand to decrypt folder and all contents as system user:
PsExec.exe -i -s cipher /d /s"fullPathToFolder"
(documentation for the cipher command can be found here
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From Quinn: I want to go over this article and make a better document because it looks like you can open a command prompt as the system user https://specopssoft.com/blog/how-to-become-the-local-system-account-with-psexec/