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 Hey, Doctor Scripto. Is there a nice simple way to see if drives are Bitlocker encrypted? A most excellent question! You can the Get-BitlockerVolume Cmdlet and filter on the VolumeStatus property. Here's an example of a line that will...

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 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? There ...

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 ...