Copying files and folders to a remote folder using PowerShell

I have been switching many of scripts from using command-line operations over to PowerShell in recent weeks and one of the operations I had been doing earlier was using the "net use" command to map drives to remote shares on servers before copying them over using Robocopy.

However, I did not really need to use the "net use" command since it was just part of a background process and the drive letter could be deleted immediately after the copy operation was completed so I began searching for PowerShell alternatives.

I found just such an alternative using the "New-PSDrive" command:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849829.aspx

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176915.aspx

Once I understood exactly how to use this PowerShell cmdlet, I was able to compose the following PowerShell script:

	[CmdletBinding()]
	Param
	(
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=1)]
	$Source = "C:\Downloads",
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
	$Dest = "\\myserver\c$\myfolder",
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
	$DriveLetter = "J",
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
	$Username = "administrator",
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
	$Password = "Complex_Passw0rd"
	)
	Clear-Host
	$SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $Password -AsPlainText -Force
	$mycreds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($Username, $SecurePassword)
	#Format the drive letter so that it is a proper destination path
	$DriveLetterPath = "{0}:" -f $DriveLetter
	Write-Host "This is the drive letter path $DriveLetterPath"
	if (! (Test-Path $DriveLetterPath))
	{
	Write-Host "Mapping the Drive Letter in PowerShell"
	New-PSDrive -Name $DriveLetter -PSProvider FileSystem -Root $Dest -Credential $mycreds -Persist | Out-Null
	Write-Host "Copying the files over to the remotely mapped drive letter"
	Copy-Item -Path "$Source\*" -Destination $DriveLetterPath -Recurse
	#Remove the mapped PowerShell Drive
	Remove-PSDrive $DriveLetter -PSProvider FileSystem -Force
	}#if

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