{"id":6541,"date":"2015-04-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/20\/powertip-find-powershell-providers\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:49","slug":"powertip-find-powershell-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-powershell-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find PowerShell Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: &nbsp;Learn how to find Windows PowerShell providers and their capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I find what Windows PowerShell providers I have on my system?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-PSProvider<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note&nbsp;<\/b>&nbsp;Beginning with Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, some providers load on-demand, and therefore, they do not <br \/>appear unless they have been accessed at least once. The WSMAN provider is an example of such a provider.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: &nbsp;Learn how to find Windows PowerShell providers and their capabilities. &nbsp;How can I find what Windows PowerShell providers I have on my system? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-PSProvider&nbsp;cmdlet. Note&nbsp;&nbsp;Beginning with Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, some providers load on-demand, and therefore, they do not appear unless they have been accessed at least once. The WSMAN provider is an example of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,356,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: &nbsp;Learn how to find Windows PowerShell providers and their capabilities. &nbsp;How can I find what Windows PowerShell providers I have on my system? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-PSProvider&nbsp;cmdlet. Note&nbsp;&nbsp;Beginning with Windows PowerShell&nbsp;3.0, some providers load on-demand, and therefore, they do not appear unless they have been accessed at least once. The WSMAN provider is an example of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}