Vista - Finding shares in AD with PowerShell

All,

Is WMI the best way to find all the share on an AD server and the share's
permissions? Or is there a better way with Powershell?


Thanks in advance.

Can you clarify what you mean by AD Server? Domain Controller?

Also, what do yo mean by shares? Do you mean published shares in AD or computer
shares?

Brandon Shell
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C> All,
C>
C> Is WMI the best way to find all the share on an AD server and the
C> share's permissions? Or is there a better way with Powershell?
C>
C> Thanks in advance.
C>

Brandon, thanks for the quick response.

I want to find both published shares in AD and computer shares on all
servers.



"Brandon Shell [MVP]" <a_bshell.mask@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Are you using windows 2000? I believe they removed published shares post 2k.

WMI is you best bet.


Brandon Shell
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C> Brandon, thanks for the quick response.
C>
C> I want to find both published shares in AD and computer shares on all
C> servers.
C>
C> "Brandon Shell [MVP]" <a_bshell.mask@xxxxxx> wrote in message
C> news:29d4f6464ce98ca5e2f2028c41f@xxxxxx
C>

To find the WMI classes that deal with shares

Get-WmiObject -List | Where{$_.Name -like "*share*"}

To see shares on local machine

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Share

To search remote machines - create a csv file with the server names 1 per
line & a header row of Server

Import-Csv | Foreach {Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Share -ComputerName
$_.Server}





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"Brandon Shell [MVP]" wrote:

I am using XP, servers are Win2k and Win2k3. So, you think WMI is my best
bet to get published shares in AD, computer\server shares and their
permissions?


"Brandon Shell [MVP]" <a_bshell.mask@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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WMI is the way to go.

You can use this

Get-WmiObject Win32_Share -comp $servername

for permissions you could use get-acl

(get-acl \\$ServerName\Share).Access



Brandon Shell
---------------
Blog: http://www.bsonposh.com/
PSH Scripts Project: www.codeplex.com/psobject

C> I am using XP, servers are Win2k and Win2k3. So, you think WMI is my
C> best bet to get published shares in AD, computer\server shares and
C> their permissions?
C>
C> "Brandon Shell [MVP]" <a_bshell.mask@xxxxxx> wrote in message
C> news:29d4f6464cf18ca5e3adb0f7296@xxxxxx
C>