We will continue our discussion on PowerShell basics on following topics: Providers and Drives in PowerShell Using Comments and help in PowerShell Common Parameters in PowerShell Verbose Debug ErrorAction ErrorVariable WarningAction WarningVariable WhatIf Confirm OutBurffer OutVariable You may find all the videos of series at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkSpjPdRpFFJt-H1cgUjh9r_o_wRwhj-N You can access the slides used in video at https://www.slideshare.net/ashishrajsrivastava You may join my telegram powershell group https://t.me/joinchat/EmY3SgxLhLGQzRj8zuTh2g

1. Day 11

2. Providers and Drives
• Providers inWindows PowerShell are .NET libraries that you can use
to navigate to data that a particular provider represents. Simply, it is
an interface between the user and the data.
• Each provider has at least one drive. PowerShell providers allow
access to their data in the form of drives, so you use the same
cmdlets to navigate different objects according to the provider.

3. Using comments and help
• Single line comment start with #
• Multiline comment start with <# and end with #>

4. Using Comments and help (Conti..)
• In order to use this help system, we use the Get-Help cmdlet along
with the respective cmdlet you want to get help for.
• You can add extra parameters to get more information. For instance,
you can add –detailed or –Full to get a detailed help information.
• Get-Help Get-Process –Detailed
• Get-Help Get-Process –Example
• Get-Help Get-Process –Detailed
• Get-Help Get-Process -ShowWindow

5. Common Parameters in PowerShell
• Verbose – displays detailed info
• Debug – displays programmers info
• ErrorAction -Continue, ignore, inquire, stop, suspend, and SilentlyContinue
• ErrorVariable - store the error messages generated by the cmdlet
• WarningAction - Continue, stop, inquire, and SilentlyContinue
• WarningVariable - store the warning messages generated by a cmdlet
• WhatIf - describes the instructions, effects, and change in effects that are supposed to
happen by the cmdlet without executing it
• Confirm - prompts for a confirmation before executing cmdlets
• OutBurffer - determines the number of objects to be accumulated in the buffer before
moving to the next cmdlet in the pipeline
• OutVariable - determines the variable to store the output objects from the cmdlet

6. ThankYou!