Get mapped network drives labels - powershell

Question

Is there a way to get mapped network drives labels?
I know it's possible to get multiple properties through the
Get-Object Win32_MappedLogicalDisk
But none of them are labels (please do not misunderstand, I do not want Name i.e. K:, I want labels i.e. My Network drive)

Answer 1

You could use the Com Shell.Application object for this:
$shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
(Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_MappedLogicalDisk).DeviceID |
# or (Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_MappedLogicalDisk).DeviceID |
# or ([System.IO.DriveInfo]::GetDrives() | Where-Object { $_.DriveType -eq 'Network' }).Name |
Select-Object #{Name = 'Drive'; Expression = {$_}},
#{Name = 'Label'; Expression = {$shell.NameSpace("$_").Self.Name.Split("(")[0].Trim()}}
# when done, clear the com object from memory
$null = [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($shell)
[System.GC]::Collect()
[System.GC]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()
Output:
Drive Label
----- -----
X: MyCode
Some explanation for the above:
Using the COM object Shell.Application, you can drill down through its properties and methods.
.NameSpace create and return a Folder object for the specified folder
.Self gets a Read-Only duplicate System.Shell.Folder object
.Name from that we take the Name property like 'MyCode (X:)'
.Split this name we split on the opening bracket '(',
[0] take the first part of the splitted name and
.Trim() get rid of any extraneous whitespace characters
Another way is to go into the registry, but remember that after a mapped network folder is unmapped, the old registry value remains.
This is why below code still uses one of two methods to find active network mappings first:
# the registry key to search in
$regKey = 'HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2'
# list the mapped network drives and loop through
# you can also use Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_MappedLogicalDisk
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_MappedLogicalDisk | ForEach-Object {
# create the full registry key by replacing the backslashes in the network path with hash-symbols
$key = Join-Path -Path $regKey -ChildPath ($_.ProviderName -replace '\\', '#')
# return an object with the drive name (like 'X:') and the Label the user gave it
[PsCustomObject]#{
Drive = $_.DeviceID
Label = Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path $key -Name '_LabelFromReg' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}
}
Output here also:
Drive Label
----- -----
X: MyCode

Answer 2

I am not aware of a cmdlet that will give you that info. I believe you can find it by looking at the registry with gci, but you would need to cleanup the output.
get-childitem "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2"