Mapping Network Drives (Part 3)

If you migrated from VBScript to PowerShell, you may remember how VBScript mapped network drives. This option is still available in PowerShell.

$helper = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network

$helper.MapNetworkDrive('O:','\\dc-01\somefolder',$true) 
$helper.EnumNetworkDrives()

Test-Path -Path O:\
explorer.exe O:\
Get-PSDrive -Name O


$helper.RemoveNetworkDrive('O:', $true, $true) 

If you want to log on with alternate credentials, try this overload instead:

$helper.MapNetworkDrive('O:','\\dc-01\somefolder',$true, 'training\user02', 'topSecret') 

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