Implicit remoting with PSDrive

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Consider the following scenario: I want to use implicit remoting to gain access to the ActiveDirectory module on my Domain Controller. Easily enough done:

function Use-DCSession {
    $DomainController = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Forest]::GetCurrentForest().RootDomain.FindDomainController().Name
    Use-RemoteModule $DomainController ActiveDirectory
}

function Use-RemoteModule([string]$ComputerName, [string]$Module) {
    Write-Verbose "Importing $Module module from $Computername"
    $session = New-PSSession $ComputerName
    New-Variable -Name "$($Module)_Session" -Value $session -Scope Global
    Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock { import-module $args[0] } -ArgumentList $Module
    $moduleName = (Import-Module (Import-PSSession -Module $Module -AllowClobber -Session $session) -Global -PassThru).Name
    Write-Verbose "$Module imported as $moduleName"
}

Use-DCSession

However, I do not have access to the AD: PSDrive that was created in the remote session. Is there any way to get the PSDrive injected into a session like we get with modules? I can work around it by wrapping Invoke-Commands in custom functions as below, but it is a cludge and does not integrate well.

$global:ActiveDirectory_Session = New-PSSession -ComputerName DC 

function Get-ADChildItem($Path, $session=$global:ActiveDirectory_Session) {
    Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock { ls $args[0] } -ArgumentList $Path
}

Get-ADChildItem "ad:\dc=AD,ad=LOCALDOMAIN" | select Name, objectClass

Expected Results:
    name           objectClass  
    ----           -----------  
    AD             domainDNS    
    Configuration  configuration
    Schema         dMD          
    ForestDnsZones domainDNS    
    DomainDnsZones domainDNS

Is there something like a “RemoteDriveProxyProvider” which would redirect standard command calls through to the remote session’s drive and return the appropriate results? I’d be happy to write a custom provider if needed, but I’m not to clear on how the powershell would map to C# in this scenario.

Thanks,
James

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Nope. Providers aren’t hooked up to implicit remoting. That’s because implicit remoting works by creating local proxy commands, which do all the actual remoting; a provider doesn’t have a proxy construct available in the technology.

You’re welcome to create one, though ;).

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I expected that to be the answer, but I had hoped I was just missing something.

Thanks for your help. If I come up with a solution, I’ll post it here.

-James