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Leveraging PowerShell Providers and PSDrives

This course will teach you how to leverage existing mechanism to access OS settings like registry, certificates, built-in variables stored in the form of PSDrives.

Intermediate
1h 2m
(31)

Created by Uzair Ansari

Last Updated Jul 28, 2021

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Leveraging PowerShell Providers and PSDrives

This course will teach you how to leverage existing mechanism to access OS settings like registry, certificates, built-in variables stored in the form of PSDrives.

Intermediate
1h 2m
(31)

Created by Uzair Ansari

Last Updated Jul 28, 2021

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What you'll learn

Accessing registry can be easy! In this course, Leveraging PowerShell Providers and PSDrives, you’ll learn to use PSDrives to access and manipulate system settings like registry and certificates. First, you’ll explore which all PSDrives and system variables are available. Next, you’ll discover information that are available in environment variables. Finally, you’ll learn how to access and manipulate settings that are available in these PSDrives. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of using powershell providers and PSDrives needed to retrieve and configure OS settings.

Leveraging PowerShell Providers and PSDrives
Intermediate
1h 2m
(31)
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Uzair Ansari - Pluralsight course - Leveraging PowerShell Providers and PSDrives
Uzair Ansari
12 courses 3.6 author rating 41 ratings

A DevOps Engineer by profession, passionate about technologies, Uzair Ansari has expertise in Windows PowerShell, Windows Active Directory, public key infrastructure and Windows Servers. He likes to learn and share his knowledge with others.

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