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

    ————————– 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