Exploring the Certificate Provider: Step-by-Step Exercises

In this exercise, we explore the use of the Certificate provider in Windows PowerShell.

  1. Start Windows PowerShell.

  2. Obtain a listing of all the properties available for use with the Get-ChildItem cmdlet by piping the results into the Get-Member cmdlet. To filter out only the properties, pipeline the results into a Where-Object cmdlet and specify the membertype to be equal to property. This command is shown here:

    Get-ChildItem |Get-Member | Where-Object {$_.membertype -eq "property"}
  3. Set your location to the certificate drive. To identify the certificate drive, use the Get-PSDrive cmdlet. Use the Where-Object cmdlet and filter on names that begin with the letter c. This is shown here:

    Get-PSDrive ...

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