Comments on: A Smart PSDrive Provider

By: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:06:55 +0000

Thanks for the info. I certainly suspected it was a v2 thing, which is why I was disappointed the new IIS provider didn’t support it. I’m pretty sure it is an optional feature and not necessarily a bug. And at this point I’m not sure how Microsoft will be handling bug fixes and updates to PowerShell v2.

BTW, I also checked the SQL PSDrive provider and doesn’t offer provider specific examples.

By: Chad Miller

Chad Miller — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:47:41 +0000

I believe this is an issue with how provider help was implemented V1 vs V2. In version 2 the ability to add custom provider help was added. This abiility didn’t exist in V1 (only the generic help for item cmdlets were returned regardless of which provider was used). I could be wrong, my conclusion is based on a reading of this blog post and some questions I had asked when researching creating a provider: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/05/28/adding-custom-cmdlet-help-for-providers.aspx

Now, why hasn’t the registry provider been updated in V2 to take advantage of this feature is another question — perhaps you should log a Connect Item.

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By: Jeffery Hicks

Jeffery Hicks — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:40:34 +0000

Just checked the IIS provider and it isn’t smart like AD.