PSProvider XPS 9550

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I believe I'm having an installation issue with DellBIOSProvider an XPS9550 as I'm not able to target the DellSmbios path directly or as a mapped PS-Drive. I'm on Windows 10 1511 x64 enterprise on an XPS 9550 with firmware A06. I've Installed the following:VC++ 2012 x64Install-PackageProvider NuGetInstall-Module DellBIOSProvider I do not receive any errors and running in verbose yields no warnings or failures. Get-Module shows it is present on the system. Get-PSDrive shows the following: AliasCCertDEnvFunctionHKCUHKLMVariableWSMan I've spent the better part of 4 hours trying removing and reinstalling these components but to no effect.  Any ideas for next steps would be appreciated. Edit: here's a verbose import of the module Import-Module DellBIOSProvider -verbose VERBOSE: Loading module from path 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\DellBIOSProvider\1.0\DellBIOSProvider.psd1'.VERBOSE: Populating RepositorySourceLocation property for module DellBIOSProvider.VERBOSE: Loading module from path 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\DellBIOSProvider\1.0\DellBIOSProvider.psm1'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Set-Dell1stBootdevice'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Get-DellBiosSettings'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Clear-DellAdminPassword'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Set-DellAutoOnForSelectDays'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Get-DellBIOSPasswordPath'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Write-DellBIOSPassword'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Read-DellBIOSPassword'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Clear-DellAdminPassword'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Get-DellBIOSPasswordPath'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Get-DellBiosSettings'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Read-DellBIOSPassword'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Set-Dell1stBootdevice'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Set-DellAutoOnForSelectDays'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Write-DellBIOSPassword'.VERBOSE: Loading module from path 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\DellBIOSProvider\1.0\DellBIOSProvider.dll'.VERBOSE: Starting PS provider DellSmbiosProvVERBOSE: .NET Version: 4.0.30319.42000VERBOSE: Performing InitializeDefaultDrives operation on the 'DellSmbiosProv'provider.VERBOSE: Performing operation New-PSDrive for the provider DellSmbiosProv.VERBOSE: Category 'StealthModeControl' does not contain any supported attributes.VERBOSE: Category 'Maintenance' does not contain any supported attributes.VERBOSE: Category 'SystemLogs' does not contain any supported attributes.VERBOSE: Category 'AdvancedConfigurations' does not contain any supported attributes.To get more help about the Dell Command PowerShell provider, type Get-Help DellBIOSProvider.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Clear-DellAdminPassword'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Get-DellBIOSPasswordPath'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Get-DellBiosSettings'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Read-DellBIOSPassword'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Set-Dell1stBootdevice'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Set-DellAutoOnForSelectDays'.VERBOSE: Exporting function 'Write-DellBIOSPassword'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Clear-DellAdminPassword'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Get-DellBIOSPasswordPath'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Get-DellBiosSettings'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Read-DellBIOSPassword'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Set-Dell1stBootdevice'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Set-DellAutoOnForSelectDays'.VERBOSE: Importing function 'Write-DellBIOSPassword'. Edit 2: It appears the issue is when the module is imported when running under the context of SYSTEM.  When the Import-Module command is executed under the user context the PSDrive is created.  I suspect this may not be intentional--can anyone confirm/deny?

HurfDurf · Accepted Answer

I was able to solve this.  The issue was a tool I was using to issue remote powershell commands to a machine was instancing each command, so the PSDrive was being created and destroyed during the import.  I was able to prove this by running the import along with Get-PSDrive in a single command and it returned DellSmbios correctly.

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