{"id":6641,"date":"2015-04-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/15\/powertip-remove-type-data-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:53","slug":"powertip-remove-type-data-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-remove-type-data-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Remove Type Data with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to remove type data by using Windows PowerShell.<\/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 remove a custom type data that is producing an error message when I try to update it <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;in my Windows PowerShell session?<\/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-TypeData<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve an instance of the type data, and pipe it to the&nbsp;<br \/><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Remove-TypeData<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">&quot;Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimInstance#root\/cimv2\/Win32_Volume&quot; |<br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Get-TypeData | Remove-TypeData<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a long single-line command that is broken at the pipeline character for readability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><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: Learn how to remove type data by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I remove a custom type data that is producing an error message when I try to update it &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;in my Windows PowerShell session? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-TypeData&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve an instance of the type data, and pipe it to [&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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to remove type data by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I remove a custom type data that is producing an error message when I try to update it &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;in my Windows PowerShell session? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-TypeData&nbsp;cmdlet to retrieve an instance of the type data, and pipe it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","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=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/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=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}