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.
Using Get-PSDrive to get mapped drives
Using PowerShell Get-PSDrive cmdlet, get all available drives.
PS C:\> Get-PSDrive Name Used (GB) Free (GB) Provider Root CurrentLocation ---- --------- --------- -------- ---- --------------- Alias Alias C 178.90 10.99 FileSystem C:\ Cert Certificate \ D 252.37 30.57 FileSystem D:\ Env Environment Function Function HKCU Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER HKLM Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE K 252.37 30.57 FileSystem \\Corp-in-18\Software Variable Variable WSMan WSMan
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:\>
Get mapped network drives using net use
Use net use cmd in PowerShell, get all available mapped drives in 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:\>
The above PowerShell script, lists mapped drives on the local system.
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Using WMI to get mapped network drives
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:\>
Get mapped drive on the remote computer using WMI
Using WMI method, Win32_MappedLogicalDisk class is used to get mapped network drive on the remote computer.
Get-WmiObject -ClassName Win32_MappedLogicalDisk –ComputerName corp-in-200| Select PSComputerName, Name,ProviderName
In the above command, it gets mapped network drives on the remote computer specified by the ComputerName parameter.
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Using CIM Method to get mapped network drive
Use CIM method to get available mapped drive on local computer
Refer to the below command to view 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, it gets 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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