# 13 New PowerBricks 🧱

> Thirteen new PowerBricks cover BitLocker, browser extensions, and Windows regional settings, and 55 existing bricks are updated.

Source: https://docs.capaone.com/capaone/changelog/2026-09-10-13-new-powerbricks/  
Product: CapaOne — a separate CapaSystems product; do not apply this page to any other.

PowerBricks are the building blocks you snap together to automate a task without writing the script
yourself. This release adds 13 of them and updates 55 more.

## 🔐 Manage BitLocker end to end

Disk encryption is the headline of this release. Five new bricks cover the full lifecycle, so you
can turn BitLocker on during provisioning and keep it healthy afterwards:

- 🛡️ Configure BitLocker
- 🔑 Backup BitLocker Recovery Key
- ⏸️ Suspend BitLocker
- ▶️ Resume BitLocker
- 🚫 Disable BitLocker

⭐ **Suspend** and **Resume** are the pair you want around a firmware or BIOS update. Without them,
an encrypted disk meets the changed hardware and greets your user with a recovery prompt.

## 🌐 Control browser extensions

Chrome and Firefox now have the same add and remove bricks that Microsoft Edge already had:

- ➕ Add Google Chrome Extension
- ➖ Remove Google Chrome Extension
- ➕ Add Mozilla Firefox Extension
- ➖ Remove Mozilla Firefox Extension

## 🌍 Set up Windows for the right region

Three bricks handle the regional settings that every new machine needs:

- 🗣️ Configure Windows Language
- ⌨️ Configure Windows Keyboard Layout
- 🕒 Configure Windows Time Zone

## 👥 Clean up local group membership

**Local Group Remove All Except** empties a local group but keeps the accounts you name. Point it at
the local Administrators group to strip out everything that drifted in over time, without locking
yourself out.

## 🔧 55 existing bricks updated

We rewrote the PowerShell behind 55 bricks for more reliable error handling and clearer log output.

⚠️ **Two changes are visible in the interface:**

- **Install Microsoft365** is now named **Install Microsoft 365**, and takes updated parameters.
- The permission bricks — **Set** and **Remove File**, **Directory**, and **Registry Permissions** —
  take updated parameters.

Review any app that uses those bricks the next time you edit it.

💡 Got an idea for the next PowerBrick? Let us know in the comments 👇