Exploring PowerShell providers and the File System Provider

One innovation in PowerShell that IT professionals soon learn to love is PowerShell providers. A provider is a component that provides access to specialized data stores for easy management. The provider makes the data appear in a drive with a path similar to how you access files in file stores.

PowerShell 7.2 comes with the following providers:

• Registry: provides access to registry keys and registry values (https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_registry_provider.
• Alias: provides access to PowerShell'’s command aliases (https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_alias_provider).
• Environment: provides access to Windows environment variables (https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_environment_provider).
• FileSystem: provides access to files in a partition (https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell...