Suspend BitLocker Temporarily

2019-10-23 BitLocker, PowerShell Harry Caskey 0

This script will check if BitLocker is currently in an active state, and if so it will run the Suspend-BitLocker cmdlet.

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Detect VPN Connection State with PowerShell

2018-11-20 PowerShell, Scripts Harry Caskey 0

I wrote this script because I had a need to detect the current state of a VPN connection.  With Windows 10, you can use the “Get-VpnConnection” cmdlet. However, if you are working in an environment where that commandlet is not available you can use a WMI query to determine the VPN Connection State.

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Add Systems to SCCM Collection from Text File

2018-11-01 Current Branch, PowerShell, SCCM, Scripts Harry Caskey 0

This PowerShell command will allow you to add a list of systems to a specified collection in SCCM. Get-Content “C:\system_list_to_add.txt” | ForEach { Write-Output “Adding System: $_”; Add-CMDeviceCollectionDirectMembershipRule -CollectionName “Computer Add Collection” -ResourceID (Get-CMDevice -Name $_).ResourceID }

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Run as Administrator from PowerShell command line

2014-07-17 PowerShell Harry Caskey 0

From the PowerShell command line run:

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Remotely Acquire the Serial Number of a Machine

2012-09-13 Command Prompt, Microsoft, PowerShell, Scripts Harry Caskey 0

Awhile ago I needed to find the Serial Number of a remote machine so I could pull the drivers, traveling to see that machine became very tedious and took time.  So I did some searching and came accross this command that you can run via-command line with either powershell or by remotely connecting to the […]

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