Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Steps

Chapter 6. Leveraging Windows PowerShell providers

• Understanding Windows PowerShell providers

• Understanding the Alias provider

• Understanding the Certificate provider

• Understanding the Environment provider

• Understanding the File System provider

• Understanding the Function provider

• Understanding the Registry provider

• Understanding the Variable provider

One of the most important concepts with Windows PowerShell is the concept of Windows PowerShell providers. Windows PowerShell providers permit you to use the same cmdlets, such as Get-Item or Set-Item, to work with different types of data. This allows you to know immediately how to work with lots of different types of data. For example, you can use the Get-Item cmdlet to retrieve information about a file. ...