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A Windows PowerShell provider is a .NET program that allows the data in a specialized data store to be accessible in Windows PowerShell.

The data, which appears in a temporary drive for the session, can be managed with built-in or custom cmdlets.

Providers may also be referred to as snap-ins.

This was last updated in September 2013

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