More often system administrator has to get mapped network drives to get information about available network drives or remove mapped network drives if not required.
Using PowerShell Get-PSDrive or net use in cmd, you can easily get mapped drives. There are other ways like PowerShell WMI or CimInstance method to get mapped drives in Windows System.
In this article, I will explain how to use PowerShell Get-PSDrive and net use in cmd to get mapped network drives.
Use Get-PSDrive to Get Mapped Drives
Use the PowerShell Get-PSDrive cmdlet to get all drives in the session.
Get-PSDrive
In the above PowerShell script, the command list drives in the current session.
The output of the above script shows the hard drives (C:, D:) and the other drives exposed by the Windows PowerShell provider ( Alias:, Cert:, Env:, Variable, HKCU:).
To get a specific network drive with the letter k, use the Where condition to check the name equal to the drive letter as given below
PS C:\> Get-PSDrive | Where {$_.Name -eq "K"}
Name Used (GB) Free (GB) Provider Root CurrentLocation
---- --------- --------- -------- ---- ---------------
K 252.37 30.57 FileSystem \\corp-in-18\Software
PS C:\>
Use the net use Command to Get Mapped Network Drives
You can use the net use cmd in PowerShell to get all available mapped drives in the Windows System.
PS C:\> net use New connections will be remembered. Status Local Remote Network ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK K: \\corp-in-18\Software Microsoft Windows Network The command completed successfully. PS C:\>
In the above PowerShell script, the net use command lists mapped drives on the local system.
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Using WMI to Get Mapped Network Drives
You can use WMI to get a list of mapped network drives on the computer. To use the WMI method, follow the below steps:
- Open a PowerShell terminal as an administrator
- Import the CIM cmdlets:
Import-Module CIM
Let’s check with the help of the below examples to get a list of all mapped network drives on the local computer and remote computer.
Use WMI to get available mapped drive on the local computer
PowerShell WMI method, Win32_MappedLogicalDisk class is used to get mapped network drive on local computer.
PS C:\> Get-WmiObject -ClassName Win32_MappedLogicalDisk | Select PSComputerName, Name,ProviderName >> PSComputerName Name ProviderName -------------- ---- ------------ corp-in-20 K: \\corp-in-18\Software PS C:\>
In the above PowerShell script, the Get-WmiObject cmdlet gets the list of all mapped network drives.
Get mapped drive on the remote computer using WMI
Using WMI method, Win32_MappedLogicalDisk class is used to get a mapped network drive on the remote computer.
Get-WmiObject -ClassName Win32_MappedLogicalDisk –ComputerName corp-in-200| Select PSComputerName, Name,ProviderName
In the above PowerShell script, the Get-WmiObject gets mapped network drives on the remote computer specified by the ComputerName parameter.
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Using the CIM Method to Get a Mapped Network Drive
Use the CIM method to get available mapped drive on the local computer
You can use the Get-CimInstance cmdlet in PowerShell which uses Win32_MappedLogicalDisk to list all mapped network drives on the local computer and show the mapped drives.
The following PowerShell script returns the list and shows mapped drives on the local system.
PS C:\> Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_MappedLogicalDisk | Select SystemName, DeviceID, ProviderName SystemName DeviceID ProviderName ---------- -------- ------------ corp-in-20 K: \\corp-in-18\Software PS C:\>
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Using the CIM Method to Get Mapped Drive on a Remote Computer
To get mapped network drives on a remote computer using the CIM method, use the below command
Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_MappedLogicalDisk –ComputerName RemoteComputer | Select SystemName, DeviceID, ProviderName
In the above command, the Get-CimInstance command uses the Win32_MappedLogicalDisk class and gets a mapped network drive on the remote computer specified by the ComputerName parameter.
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Conclusion
I hope you like the above article on how to get mapped network drive using PowerShell.
We have seen different ways like Get-PSDrive, net use, WMI method, and CIM method to list mapped drives and mapped network drives on the local computer and remote systems.
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