Windows PowerShell command on Get-command Get-PSProvider

NAME
    Get-PSProvider
    
SYNOPSIS
    Gets information about the specified Windows PowerShell provider.
    
    
SYNTAX
    Get-PSProvider [[-PSProvider] ] []
    
    
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 
        Specifies the name or names of the Windows PowerShell providers about which this cmdlet gets information.
        
        Required?                    false
        Position?                    0
        Default value                None
        Accept pipeline input?       True (ByPropertyName)
        Accept wildcard characters?  false
        
    
        This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,
        ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,
        OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see 
        about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216). 
    
INPUTS
    None
        You cannot pipe objects to this cmdlet.
    
    
OUTPUTS
    System.Management.Automation.ProviderInfo
        This cmdlet returns objects that represent the Windows PowerShell providers in the session.
    
    
NOTES
    
    
        
    
    Example 1: Display a list of all available providers
    
    PS C:\>Get-PSProvider
    
    This command displays a list of all available Windows PowerShell providers.
    Example 2: Display a list of all Windows PowerShell providers that begin with specified letters
    
    PS C:\>Get-PSProvider f*, r* | Format-List
    
    This command displays a list of all Windows PowerShell providers with names that begin with the letter f or r.
    Example 3: Find snap-ins or module that added providers to your session
    
    PS C:\>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
    
    PS C:\>Get-PSProvider | Where {$_.pssnapin -eq "Microsoft.PowerShell.Security"}
    
    Name            Capabilities      Drives
    ----            ------------      ------
    Certificate     ShouldProcess     {cert}
    
    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.
    Example 4: Resolve the path of the Home property of the file system provider
    
    PS C:\>Resolve-Path ~
    
    Path
    ----
    C:\Users\User01
    
    PS C:\>(get-psprovider FileSystem).home
    C:\Users\User01
    
    This example shows that the tilde symbol (~) represents the value of the Home property of the FileSystem provider. 
    The Home property value is optional, but for the FileSystem provider, it is defined as 
    $env:homedrive\$env:homepath or $home.
    
RELATED LINKS
    Online Version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=821592