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“Inside Microsoft Teams” is a webcast series, now in Season 4 for IT pros hosted by Microsoft Product Manager, Stephen Rose. I like as many options as possible, so I’m going to get things rolling by right-clicking the Start button on my Windows 8.1 Pro Desktop and then clicking Windows PowerShell (Admin). For all intents and purposes, it can run anything CMD.exe can run. Remember, PowerShell doesn’t run just cmdlets.

I rarely use CMD.exe anymore and almost exclusively work in PowerShell for command-line tasks. The first step is to start an elevated command or PowerShell prompt. That’s right: removing a wireless profile in Windows 8 is all about the command line. The bad news (at least if you’re a GUI aficionado) is that it’s no longer a GUI-driven process. This is an easy point-and-click affair in Windows 7, but how is the same thing done from within Windows 8 versions? The good news is it’s still an easy process. More often than not, my first step in troubleshooting a misbehaving wireless connection on a PC is to remove the wireless profile and recreate it. Our bread and butter is dealing with the abnormal situations, instances in which working with wireless profiles stored on a PC is just a part of troubleshooting. For IT pros though, we live outside of the “most” and “often” categories. Many might ask “what’s the big deal?” In most cases they’d be correct – there’s often no need to manage wireless profiles manually. In today’s post, I’ll show you how to troubleshoot and fix wireless issues in Windows 8 with the NETSH command.

In this case, the “cost” is that some functions, such as managing wireless profiles, have actually become harder in these latest desktop Windows versions.

It doesn’t get much easier, but simplicity always comes with a cost. Tap the one you want, enter the password, and BOOM, you’re done. Tap the wireless icon in the Taskbar and out pops the Network Charm displaying a list of wireless networks in range. Windows 8 and 8.1 simplify the whole process of connecting to wireless networks.