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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 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...

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 ...

PowerTip: Identify if you are running on PowerShell Core

September 11, 2019 Sep 11, 2019 09/11/19
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Pulling up the properties of $PSVersionTable to identify your PowerShell edition Hey, Doctor Scripto! I want to write my modules and scripts to be more portable. How can I tell if I am executing on PowerShell Core? Just use the $PSVersionTable object and examine the PSEdition value. If it returns 'Core' you are running ...