Programmatically create a New Network Location link Windows 7

• schleep

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  May 14, 2014 at 8:26 am

  #291328

  Still trying to programmatically create a New Network Location link.

  I've got it down to -- I think:

  $Newlink = New-Object System.IO.DirectoryInfo "$MyPath"

  But I can't figure out how to set the target, which is a \\Server\Drive$

  Any ideas?

• schleep

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  May 15, 2014 at 11:58 am

  #1713969

  Well it took some looking, but I found out to do it. With a couple of minor mods , it works!!

  The gotcha is that a File Folder link is an internal MS type,

  "CLSID2={0AFACED1-E828-11D1-9187-B532F1E9575D}"

  which is NOT the simplest thing to work with (for this DBA, at least :-)).

  See http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/bd00d576-6096-4c8d-bd82-3c5853eb6675/create-shortcut-in-my-network-places-using-powershell?forum=ITCG&prof=required

  First post in the answers, by Aakash Shah.

• Gary Varga

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  May 16, 2014 at 6:05 am

  #1714152

  Thanks for posting the solution to your own problem. Very generous. Much appreciated.

  Gaz

  -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!