Powershell – Find files across all drives using Powershell

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I know how to search for files using dir/gci, but that only works across one drive AFAIK.

Is there a way to search across all drives on the computer?
Is there a way without manually enumerating then looping through the drives?
Is there a way to access the search indexes/services that are already available in windows, to speed up the search?

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This will list all ZIP files in decending size order by directory on all available drives:

get-psdrive -p "FileSystem" `
| % {write-host -f Green "Searching " $_.Root;get-childitem $_.Root -include *.ZIP -r `
| sort-object Length -descending}

Or search a specified list of Drives/Shares (e.g. C:, D: and \SERVER1\SHARE1...)

$paths="C:\","D:\","\\SERVER1\SHARE1" `
| % {write-host -f Green "Searching " $_;get-childitem $_ -include *.ZIP -r `
| sort-object Length -descending}

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Powershell – Accessing remote server paths with Powershell environment variables

This might be a little less complicated, and can easily be thrown into a foreach loop to work through your list of servers.


$RemoteServer = "KRINGER"
#The credential is required if you are working in a Workgroup 
#environment or your domain account does not have permissions
$value = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $RemoteServer -ScriptBlock {$Env:ProgramFiles} -Credential (Get-Credential) | % {$_ -replace ":","$"}

$RemoteWorkingPath = "\\" + $RemoteServer + "\" + $value + "\"
Write-Host "My remote path to use is: $RemoteWorkingPath"

Here is screenshot of the output: enter image description here

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I presume your certificate requests are made using a template. If that's the case then use the Public Key Policies/Certificate Services Client - Auto-Enrollment Settings GPO to enforce auto enrollment. You'll also want to ensure the template ACL has Enroll and AutoEnroll marked for either domain computers or domain users (or whatever acl object, depending on the intended audience) There's a user config and computer config policy to leverage depending on whether or not it's a machine cert or user cert you're trying to push. Enrollment begins as soon as when the policy is pushed (usually about 15 minutes) after the GPO is linked and enforced.

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