Get UNC Path of Mapped Drive

The question: How to get UNC path of network mapped drive? If you are looking for the UNC path of a network drive use Get-PSDrive. It will gather all of the information about a drive. This includes the provider, root, current location, used space, free space, and name.

Let’s start:

$drive = Get-PSDrive -Name (get-location).Drive.Name

Let us start this, for instance the name parameter is used as the current drive letter by using Get-Location.

$root = if($drive.DisplayRoot -ne $null){$drive.DisplayRoot} else {$drive.Root}

Next, we continue by comparing the .Root data with the drive letter and network location. .DisplayRoot gives us the network location / network path. .Root gives us the drive letter. It will be Null if it is a local path as there is no .DisplayRoot to provide.

$V = Join-Path -Path $root -ChildPath $drive.CurrentLocation

Test-Path -Path $V

Get UNC Path of Mapped Drive

Lastly using Join-Path put it all together to give the network path and current location if it is a mapped drive. If not you will get just the drive letter.

In conclusion we were able to get the full path of a network and mapped drive with just a few lines of code. This is incredibly useful when running reports for mappings, or if you are working on consolidating the drive maps in your organization.

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