Get-SmbShare

Since Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, we have version 3.0 of the SMB protocol. This version includes several SMB security enhancements, one of which is encryption. Implementation of this enhancement enables us to encrypt data transferred over the network between the SMB file server and the client.

In this post, I want to show how to create a shared folder using PowerShell. To do this, we can first check the PowerShell help to know the parameters of the New-SmbShare cmdlet To check the PowerShell help, we will use the Get-Help command with the following syntax.