Vista - Junction/Symlink Support in Vista

Since RC2 doesn't install on Vista, we can't really test support for
junctions and symlinks. I notice that with my RC1 refresh that the GCI
command doesn't show junctions, symlinks or hard links like CMD's dir
command does. Also the built-in Vista support for creating these links
(mklink) seems to be a built-in shell command instead of a stand-alone EXE.
That begs the question of whether or not PoSH will support the creation of
junctions, sysmlinks and hard links in Vista?

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Keith

We have no explicit support for reparse points in PowerShell. The best bet
to manage these is still the standalone programs available -- such as the
ones available from Sysinternals.

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Lee Holmes [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell Development
Microsoft Corporation
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"Keith Hill [MVP]" <r_keith_hill@no.spam.thank.u.hotmail.com> wrote in
message news:uiEXFky5GHA.1256@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Since RC2 doesn't install on Vista, we can't really test support for
> junctions and symlinks. I notice that with my RC1 refresh that the GCI
> command doesn't show junctions, symlinks or hard links like CMD's dir
> command does. Also the built-in Vista support for creating these links
> (mklink) seems to be a built-in shell command instead of a stand-alone
> EXE. That begs the question of whether or not PoSH will support the
> creation of junctions, sysmlinks and hard links in Vista?
>
> --
> Keith
>

"Lee Holmes [MSFT]" <lee.holmes@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:uShyUG%235GHA.4592@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> We have no explicit support for reparse points in PowerShell. The best
> bet to manage these is still the standalone programs available -- such as
> the ones available from Sysinternals.

Hopefully this feature makes it into v.next. For now, I'll just use "cmd /c
mklink ..."

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Keith