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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.

Uzair Ansari - Pluralsight course - Leveraging PowerShell Providers and PSDrives
by Uzair Ansari
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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.

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Uzair Ansari - Pluralsight course - Leveraging PowerShell Providers and PSDrives
Uzair Ansari

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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