February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
632 pages
20h 20m
English
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When you add a module or a PSSnapin to PowerShell, you usually take this step because of the commands contained within those extensions. But extensions can also add something called a PSProvider to the shell, and those providers can be useful in ways many administrators haven’t realized are possible.
PSProviders, or providers for short, don’t immediately seem like a good idea for administration, but they are. To better understand what providers are, and what advantages they offer, you have to understand the other way of managing things in PowerShell: using commands.
Think ...