Question:
For some reason, it seems that my install of Windows 10/Powershell 5.0 is missing the Certificate Provider. It seems like I somehow don’t even have the Microsoft.PowerShell.Security module that is supposed to be installed with powershell by default and includes the certificate provider. Here is what I get when I run Get-Module (I added post-git sometime ago, maybe I messed it up when I did that?):
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ModuleType Version Name ExportedCommands ---------- ------- ---- ---------------- Manifest 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Management {Add-Computer, Add-Content, Checkpoint-Computer, Clear-Con... Manifest 3.1.0.0 Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility {Add-Member, Add-Type, Clear-Variable, Compare-Object...} Script 0.7.1 posh-git {Add-PoshGitToProfile, Add-SshKey, Enable-GitColors, Get-A... Script 1.2 PSReadline {Get-PSReadlineKeyHandler, Get-PSReadlineOption, Remove-PS... |
and here is what I get when I run Get-PSProvider:
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Name Capabilities Drives ---- ------------ ------ Registry ShouldProcess, Transactions {HKLM, HKCU} Alias ShouldProcess {Alias} Environment ShouldProcess {Env} FileSystem Filter, ShouldProcess, Credentials {C, D, E} Function ShouldProcess {Function} Variable ShouldProcess {Variable} |
Is there anyway that I can reinstall PowerShell or add this provider/drive to my build without reinstalling Windows entirely? Something very fishy seems to have happened to my machine and I’d really rather not do a full reinstall if not absolutely necessary.
Answer:
I came to find the same issue.
I my case the problem was the PSModulePath environment variable did not have the right paths in it.