Huddled Masses » WMI http://huddledmasses.org You can do more than breathe for free... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:37:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 AutoMount Removable Drives in PowerShell v2 (CTP2) http://huddledmasses.org/automount-removable-drives-in-powershell-v2-ctp2/ http://huddledmasses.org/automount-removable-drives-in-powershell-v2-ctp2/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:12:24 +0000 Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett http://HuddledMasses.org/?p=637 Oisin (x0n) Grehan wrote a module for PowerShell 2 which uses the WMI ManagementEventWatcher and the new event-handling features of PowerShell 2.0 to automatically run scripts whenever you plug in or unplug a removable drive …. specifically, the AutoMount module runs New-PSDrive whenever you plug in a removable, and Remove-PSDrive when you unplug it.

The bottom line is it works great (at least on Vista), and I think I’ll add it to my “AutoModules” ;) ... sadly, it’s not on PoshCode yet :/ but you should go- check it out, it’s a great example of how to work with events in PowerShell, both consuming and creating them (incidentally, x0n’s PSEventing snapin would let you accomplish this in PowerShell v1). [new] x0n’s posted it on PoshCode, so you can Get-PoshCode 525 if you have the module or script installed, or download it from the embed link below:

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