Provider help topics are missing

[mklement0]

Steps to reproduce

• First, run Update-Help from an elevated / sudo prompt to ensure that the latest topics have been downloaded.

# This works in WinPS.
Get-Help -Category provider Environment

Expected behavior

The Environment PS provider's help topic should print.

Actual behavior

An error about a missing file is reported.

Get-Help : System.Management.Automation.dll-Help.xml
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-Help -Category Provider Environment
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (:) [Get-Help], FileNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : LoadHelpFileForTargetFailed,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetHelpCommand

Environment data

PowerShell Core v6.1.0 on macOS 10.14
PowerShell Core v6.1.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
PowerShell Core v6.1.0 on Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit; Version 1803, OS Build: 17134.165)

[cantoris]

I can't find any Provider help in v7.2.2 on Win10 21H2 x64 either, though I can see the docs online. eg Both of the following do not return the expected docs

Get-Help -Category Provider
Get-Help -Name *filesystem*

Both the above work in Windows PowerShell 5.1.

[ThomasNieto]

This is due to the PowerShell team migrating the docs from the help xml to about topics. I don't agree with the change but its still there technically but breaks the -Category parameter search.

Get-Help about*provider*

Name                              Category  Module                    Synopsis
----                              --------  ------                    --------
about_Alias_Provider              HelpFile
about_Certificate_Provider        HelpFile
about_Environment_Provider        HelpFile
about_FileSystem_Provider         HelpFile
about_Function_Provider           HelpFile
about_Providers                   HelpFile
about_Registry_Provider           HelpFile
about_Variable_Provider           HelpFile
about_WSMan_Provider              HelpFile

[cantoris]

This is due to the PowerShell team migrating the docs from the help xml to about topics.

Get-Help about*provider*

Name                              Category  Module                    Synopsis
----                              --------  ------                    --------
about_Alias_Provider              HelpFile

Even after "Get-Module -ListAvailable | Update-Help -Force", your command above still gives me no results in PS 7.2.6?!

[theJasonHelmick]

Thank you @mklement0 -- as mentioned this was due to a migration to about topics. Get-Help -Name about*provider should provide the expected results.

[ghost]

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