Files, Folders, and the Registry

The filesystem and the registry are two from among a number of providers available in PowerShell. A provider represents a data store as a filesystem.

The commands used to work with data within a particular provider, such as filesystems, are common to all providers.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Working with providers
• Items
• Item properties
• Item attributes
• Windows permissions
• Transactions
• File catalogs