The best thing of all is that it supports remote UNC paths, mapped drives and local drives. I was in luck because Get-ChildItem -Recurse does exactly that, and it does it very quickly. As mentioned above I also wanted it to be portable so I wanted to make sure it was able get folder sizes for remote computers. The goal of the script was to have Powershell get all files in a directory and subdirectories with size. I wanted something a bit more portable and most of all, I wanted something clean! I decided I was going to write a Powershell script to get folder sizes on remote computers and ultimately came up with Get Directory Tree Size Using Powershell. I know there are programs such as windirstat and treesize but I didn’t necessarily want to install anything on my server, much less worry about patching it or removing it later. I thought it to be highly unusual that it could be filled up so fast so I wanted to see what folders were taking the most space remotely. The problem was that this was a relatively new server with several terabytes of disk space. Typically, I would just go into VMware vCenter, expand the disk and call it a day.
The other day I got some alerts saying that one of our file servers was running out of space.
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