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PowerTip: Identify Drives Encrypted with Bitlocker

October 2, 2019 Oct 2, 2019 10/2/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using the Get-Bitlocker Cmdlet to show the status of drives on your Windows 10 computer (image) Hey, Doctor Scripto. Is there a nice simple way to see if drives are Bitlocker encrypted? (image) A most excellent question! You can the Get-BitlockerVolume Cmdlet and filter on the VolumeStatus property. Here's an example of ...

Using PowerShell to View and Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10 – Part 2

October 2, 2019 Oct 2, 2019 10/2/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using Measure-Command to determine the fastest approach to a solution. Last week we were having some fun using PowerShell as a wrapper around the NetSh.exe command's output. We were left at a decision point. Which way to go? A For loop to clean up the data, which worked fine or Regular Expressions. Although both work which was ...

PowerTip: Converting a Here-String to an Array in One Line with PowerShell

September 25, 2019 Sep 25, 2019 09/25/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using the split method in a more powerful fashion to split an array based upon two line terminating types (image) Hey, Doctor Scripto. I was wondering if there was a more efficient way of converting a Here-String to an Array when there were multiple line termination options like Linefeed or Carriage Return and Linefeed? (...

Using PowerShell to View and Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10 – Part 1

September 25, 2019 Sep 25, 2019 09/25/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Using PowerShell and Regular Expressions as a wrapper on NetSh.exe output to identify the profiles. Hey, Doctor Scripto! I have a whole pile of old Wireless profiles that have been collecting dust. I know I can use NETSH to view and delete them, but the process is very manual. Do you know if there is an easier way to clear them ...