Get-PSProvider - PowerShell command help and examples

Gets information about the specified Windows PowerShell provider. (Get-PSProvider)

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 NAME
 
    Get-PSProvider 

 SYNOPSIS
 
    Gets information about the specified Windows PowerShell provider. 

 SYNTAX
 
    Get-PSProvider [[-PSProvider] <string[]>] [<CommonParameters>] 

 DESCRIPTION
 
    The Get-PSProvider cmdlet gets the Windows PowerShell providers in the current session. You can get a particular drive or all drives in the session. 

    Windows PowerShell providers let you access a variety of data stores as though they were file system drives. For information about Windows PowerShell providers, see about_Providers. 

 PARAMETERS
 
    -PSProvider <string[]> 
        Specifies the name or names of the Windows PowerShell providers about which to retrieve information. 

        Required?                    false 
        Position?                    1 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       true (ByPropertyName) 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    <CommonParameters> 
        This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, 
        ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, 
        OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type, 
        "get-help about_commonparameters". 

 INPUTS
 
    None 
        You cannot pipe objects to this cmdlet. 

 OUTPUTS
 
    System.Management.Automation.ProviderInfo 
        Get-PSProvider returns objects that represent the Windows PowerShell providers in the session. 

 NOTES
 

 Examples
    
EXAMPLE 1
 

    C:\PS>get-psprovider 

     Description
 
    ----------- 
    This command displays a list of all available Windows PowerShell providers. 

    
EXAMPLE 2
 

    C:\PS>get-psprovider f*, r* | format-list 

     Description
 
    ----------- 
    This command displays a list of all Windows PowerShell providers with names that begin with the letter "f" or "r". 

    
EXAMPLE 3
 

    C:\PS>get-psprovider | format-table name, module, pssnapin -auto 

    Name        Module       PSSnapIn 
    ----        ------       -------- 
    Test        TestModule 
    WSMan                    Microsoft.WSMan.Management 
    Alias                    Microsoft.PowerShell.Core 
    Environment              Microsoft.PowerShell.Core 
    FileSystem               Microsoft.PowerShell.Core 
    Function                 Microsoft.PowerShell.Core 
    Registry                 Microsoft.PowerShell.Core 
    Variable                 Microsoft.PowerShell.Core 
    Certificate              Microsoft.PowerShell.Security 

    C:\PS> get-psprovider | where {$_.pssnapin -eq "Microsoft.PowerShell.Security"} 

    Name            Capabilities      Drives 
    ----            ------------      ------ 
    Certificate     ShouldProcess     {cert} 

     Description
 
    ----------- 
    These commands find the Windows PowerShell snap-ins or modules that added providers to your session. All Windows PowerShell elements, including providers, originate in a snap-in or in a module. 

    These commands use the PSSnapin and Module properties of the ProviderInfo object that Get-PSProvider returns. The values of these properties contain the name of the snap-in or module that adds the provider. 

    The first command gets all of the providers in the session and formats them in a table with the values of their Name, Module, and PSSnapin properties. 

    The second command uses the Where-Object cmdlet to get the providers that come from the Microsoft.PowerShell.Security snap-in. 

RELATED LINKS 
    Online version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113329 
    about_Providers 

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