I’ve been diving into PowerShell help lately while preparing my next Pluralsight course. One of the sad things I have discovered is the loss of provider-aware help. As you may know, some commands have parameters that only exist when using a specific PSDrive. For example, the -File parameter for Get-ChildItem only works in the file…
Tag: PSProvider
A Smart PSDrive Provider
I’ve been doing a lot with the ActiveDirectory module that ships with Windows Server 2008 R2 and which you can also use with the Remote Server Administration Tools on WIndows 7. As I was trying things out with the PSDrive provider I discovered something very cool.