Cannot access network drive in PowerShell running as administrator

Question

I\'m running PowerShell in a Windows 7 x64 virtual machine. I have a shared folder on the host mapped as a network drive (Z:). When I run PS normally I can access that drive

Answer 1

I'm using the following hacky solution where I recreate "missing" PSDrives in profile.ps1 when Powershell is running in elevated mode.

Gist

# Reconnect PSDrives for network connections when running with elevated privileges
$elevated = (([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator))
if( $elevated ) {
    net use | ?{ $_ -match ":\s+\\\\"  -and !$_.StartsWith("Unavailable") } | %{
        $tokens = $_.split(":")
        $psdrivename = $tokens[0][$tokens[0].length-1]
        $path = $tokens[1].trim().split(" ")[0].trim()

        if( !(get-psdrive | ?{ $_.Name -eq $psdrivename } )) {
            write-host ( "Restoring PSDrive for {0}: {1}" -f $psdrivename, $path )
            new-psdrive $psdrivename FileSystem $path | out-null
        }
    }
}