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PowerShell make a drive of an UNC path

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I see a lot of post lately about using wscript.Network to make a networkmapping,
like this :

$net = $(New-Object -Com WScript.Network)
$net.MapNetworkDrive("u:", "\\computer\share")

e.g. here :

Can you map a drive with PowerShell?

and here.

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/ezine/ezine110.htm

but there is a more native way to do this on PowerShell,

*edit* but as Jacques (links to French blog janel) pointed out to me in the comments, this is only valid for the PowerShell so you can not use it to map a drive and use it from the CMD prompt or the GUI (what is a big difference ) but if you use it in the powershell it has a lot of power as naming the drive with more letters, a path, or mapping to a registrykey.

New-PSDrive HKCR Registry -root
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

or a registry path e.g. the PowerShell configuration

New-PSDrive PsConfig Registry -root
HKLM:\software\Microsoft\powershell\1\ShellIds

and ofcourse as mentioned an UNC path :

just type new-PsDrive and you can make an PowerShell drive of a Networkshare :

MowPS>new-psdrive

cmdlet new-psdrive at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:

Name: u
PSProvider: filesystem
Root: \\Computer\share

Name Provider Root
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u FileSystem \\Computer\share

gr /\/\o\/\/
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