Client always shows the System State as Inactive (MfeEpe.log: 0xEE010003, incompatible product(s) were found)

Technical Articles ID: KB86420
Last Modified: 2023-04-20 10:35:05 Etc/GMT

Environment

Drive Encryption (DE) 7.x

Examples of incompatible products:

BitLocker Drive Encryption (Microsoft)
Guardian Edge
Hewlett Packard Protect Tools (Drive Encryption) software
HP OEM Client
PGP Whole Disk Encryption
PointSec6
SafeBoot
SafeGuard Easy (Sophos)
SafeGuardEasy550
Symantec Endpoint Encryption
TrueCrypt (Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software)

For details of DE-supported environments, see KB79422 - Supported platforms for Drive Encryption 7.x.

Problem 1

Unable to activate a system that has an incompatible product installed.

Client side:
The user sees the following on the client in the Encryption System Status window, even though the encryption policy is activated in ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO):

System State	Inactive
Volume Status	No volume information
Progress	Progress bar shows no encryption activity

ePO Console:
The administrator sees the Client System Details showing for DE:

State

In-Active

Clicking More, Disks shows the following message:

No details available, as Drive Encryption is not Active

Problem 2

MfeEpe.log records the following errors:

INFO	StatusService	Activation has started
..
ERROR	MfeEpeCoreEncryptionPlugin	INCOMPATIBLE PRODUCT(S) DETECTED! The following incompatible product(s) were found: Third-Party_Product_Name
WARNING	MfeEpeCoreEncryptionPlugin	INCOMPATIBLE PRODUCT(S) DETECTED! The following incompatible product(s) were found: Third-Party_Product_Name
ERROR	StatusService	Activation has failed: Incompatible products found
ERROR	EpoPlugin	userHandler: failed to process batched user data response: [0xEE010003] INCOMPATIBLE PRODUCT(S) DETECTED! The following incompatible product(s) were found: Third-Party_Product_Name
ERROR	StatusService	Failed to process a batch of user data received

Cause

DE 7.x has detected the components of an incompatible product and prevents the system from being activated.

Solution

Uninstall the incompatible product to allow DE to activate.

Option 1 (client side)

Open the Endpoint Encryption MfeEpe.log file and identify the incompatible software,
From the Windows Add/Remove Programs, uninstall the product.
After you remove the third-party product, DE activates and reports back to the ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) server on the next Agent to Server Communication Interval.

Option 2 (server side)

Log on to the ePO server.
Click Menu, Configuration, Server Settings, Endpoint Encryption.
In the right pane, click Manage non compatible products.
You then see a list of the currently detected Incompatible products.

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