How do I get disconnected networkdrives in Powershell?

Question

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).

Answer 1

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$