Enterprise environment, have a central file server with home drives for each employee (~4,000). Each employee has a path like \\SERVER.DOMAIN.COM\share\home\EMPLOYEEID, and also has it mapped to H:\.

In Powershell 7.01, cmdlets like Get-Item and Get-ChildItem take far longer to run against the UNC path than the corresponding mapped drive path. Powershell 6.x and 5.1 do not exhibit this.

Tools like Wireshark and Process Monitor suggest that pwsh is traversing the path, getting a full directory list at each level. For example, if I run Get-Item \\SERVER.DOMAIN.COM\share\home\MYID\folder, I will see in Wireshark all employee ID folder names in packet data as it enumerates at the \\SERVER.DOMAIN.COM\share\home level.

Steps to reproduce

Get-Item \\SERVER.DOMAIN.COM\share\home\MYID\folder  #Slow
Get-Item H:\folder  #Fast

Expected behavior

#Only perform the necessary SMB request.  Do not enumerate parent folders
Get-Item \\SERVER.DOMAIN.COM\share\home\MYID\folder

Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.0.1
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.0.1
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.18363
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Also have PS6 and PS5 installed.