MicroNugget: What are PowerShell Drives and Providers?

In this video, Don Jones covers the core concepts of PowerShell, PowerShell Drives, and PowerShell Providers. He’ll also show you how PS Providers act as an adapter to make some form of storage look like a disk drive, then outline the different capabilities you can employ with providers.

A PowerShell provider is an adapter that makes some form of storage look like a disk drive. Don will carry out a live demonstration of what establishing a provider will look like as he explains their various functions and how they can benefit you.

Different providers have different capabilities. For example, the file system provider supports filtering, while many of them support ShouldProcess. Both the file system and the WSMan provider support the use of alternate credentials when you’re creating a new drive.

You can selectively create new drives, and new providers can be loaded into the shell along with modules.

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[bes]

But why? I do not understand. Why do I need a drive which is some form of storage adapted to look like a disk drive? Why would I need that?

[subhazard]

This is still pretty jargony. Why is variable a drive?