I recently needed to check and see whether a backup drive (which was just a 4TB USB drive) was plugged into a server. But the server had no GUI, so I had to use the command line. There was no drive letter mapped to this drive, so I needed to use something else and I needed to make a script that could be used long-term. Luckily, PowerShell can be used to obtain WMI information on the hardware installed on a computer. This allows administrators to query WMI about the USB devices currently installed on a server. In the following command, we’re going to use gwmi from PowerShell and we’re going…
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List Shares in Windows w/ PowerShell
It is not uncommon to end up with a number of shares on a server, be it Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. With all of this sprawl it can be useful to see the shares in a quick and concise manner. using the Win32_Share WMI class through PowerShell you can do just that from the command line, similar to the sharing command in Mac OS X Server. The command, from PowerShell would be something similar to the following: get-WmiObject -class Win32_Share Assuming communication is working as intended, you can also query for the shares of other systems, by adding a -computer switch and specifying the host you’re listing shares…