How do I get disconnected networkdrives in Powershell?

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I need to get all mapped networkdrives, even the ones who are currently disconnected. I tried it with Get-PSDrive but that only shows the ones that are currently connected. It is possible get all mapped networkdrives with net use but I can´t reuse the output (I need to save the letter and the path).

Disconnected Network drives show in the Users registry: `Get-ChildItem hkcu:\network` — henrycarteruk, Oct 11 '18 at 11:14

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 11 '18 at 11:44

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while the HKCU path solution posted by James C. is likely a better solution, you CAN get the output of net use into objects. lookee ...

net use |
    Select-Object -SkipLast 2 |
    Select-Object -Skip 6 |
    ForEach-Object {$_ -replace '\s{2,}', ', '} |
    ConvertFrom-Csv -Header Status, DriveLetter, UNC_Path, Network |
    Select-Object -Property DriveLetter, UNC_Path

hope that helps,
lee

answered Oct 11 '18 at 11:44

Lee_Dailey

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Nice one +1, easier: `(net use) -replace '\s{2,}', ',' |sls '\\\\'|ConvertFrom-Csv -Header Status, DriveLetter, UNC_Path, Network` – Oct 11 '18 at 12:10
@LotPings - i keep forgetting about Select-String. matching on the double slash is likely faster, too! [*grin*] – Lee_Dailey Oct 12 '18 at 06:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '18 at 12:17

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You can get the status of network drives from the Users registry using:

Get-ChildItem hkcu:\network

To access these reg entries you need to use Get-ItemProperty, you can build a PSObject to hold the properties to make this nicer:

Get-ChildItem hkcu:\network | %{            
    $obj = New-Object PSObject
    $obj | Add-Member Noteproperty Drive $_.name.Replace('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\network\','')
    $obj | Add-Member NoteProperty Path (Get-ItemProperty (Join-Path hkcu:\network $_.name.split('\')[-1]) | Select-Object -ExpandProperty RemotePath)
    [array]$mapped += $obj
}

Example properties:

PS> $mapped

Drive Path          
----- ----          
Y     \\server1\share
Z     \\server2\hidden$

answered Oct 11 '18 at 12:17

henrycarteruk

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Thanks for the answer but I don´t really get what this code does... So how do I acces just the "Y" or just the "\\server2\hidden$" for example? Is there a way to iterate through it? (I am really new to Powershell) – Manu Oct 11 '18 at 14:00
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Yes you can iterate through the object, here's a blog on the subject: https://www.itprotoday.com/powershell/iterating-through-collections-powershells-foreach-loops – henrycarteruk Oct 11 '18 at 14:24

How do I get disconnected networkdrives in Powershell?

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