Converting a path to UNC path doesn’t really take that many lines of code, but having recently been in a project where I needed to do this a lot, I got tired of copy-pasting the same 2-3 lines of code back and forth, and decided to create a helper function out of it.
It’s by no means perfect, and at the moment only deals with UNC paths where you have a local path and a computer name, where you want a UNC path in the format of \\computer\drive$\path\to\somewhere\
Hopefully it will be helpful to someone else as well.
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| function ConvertTo-UNCPath { | |
| <# | |
| .SYNOPSIS | |
| Convert a path to UNC path | |
| .DESCRIPTION | |
| Convert a path to UNC path | |
| .NOTES | |
| Author: Øyvind Kallstad | |
| Date: 26.10.2015 | |
| Version: 1.0 | |
| .INPUTS | |
| System.String | |
| .OUTPUTS | |
| System.String | |
| .LINK | |
| https://communary.wordpress.com/ | |
| #> | |
| [CmdletBinding()] | |
| param ( | |
| [Parameter(Position = 2, ValueFromPipeline, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)] | |
| [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] | |
| [string] $Path, | |
| [Parameter(Position = 1)] | |
| [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] | |
| [string] $ComputerName | |
| ) | |
| $pathRoot = [System.IO.Path]::GetPathRoot($Path) | |
| Write-Output ("\\$($ComputerName)$(($Path).Replace($pathRoot, "\$($Path[0])$\"))") | |
| } |
Communary 
I never moved beyond copying the 3-line piece of code around 🙂 Good effort, thanks for sharing!
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haha.. yes, I know what you mean. Did it for the longest time, before I got fed up with it. Glad you liked it! 😀
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