Is this possible using Powershell 2.0 included in Win7? Monday, October 26. Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:57 PM. Sign in to vote. Or use Rename-Computer (PowerShell 3.0) - works locally and remote. You must a local administrator or member of domain admins group. Command line: Rename-Computer -ComputerName 'Srv01' -NewName 'Server001' -LocalCredential Srv01 Admin01 -DomainCredential Domain01.
Renaming computers suck! Sure, there are worse things in life like famine, natural disasters, etc.
Regardless though, the process is way more tedious than it should be. You have to remote in and kick off any logged on user., it is still a time consuming process. At least it was until PowerShell came along.introduced the Rename-Computer cmdlet and made this task so much easier! Just to show you how easy, we are going to tackle three common tasks with this one cmdlet.
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We will:. Remotely rename a single online computer. Remotely rename multiple online computers. Schedule renames for multiple computers (offline and online)How to Remotely Rename a Computer with PowerShellFor most of this article, we will be for our scripts. In the script pane (top console), type rename-computer and press F1. This is bring up the help file for the rename-computer cmdlet.
You will notice that the only required parameter is -NewName. If you wanted to rename your local computer, you could type Rename-Computer NEWCOMPUTERNAMERenaming a computer remotely with PowerShell is just as easy; all you’ll need is the -ComputerName parameter. Here is an example that renames a computer named PC1 to PC-1.Rename-Computer -NewName PC-1 -ComputerName PC1How to Remotely Rename Multiple Computers with PowerShellIn this example, we are going to use s to export a list of computers to a CSV file. We are then going to edit the CSV file to contain our new computer names.To export our current computer names, we can use this command:get-qadcomputer -Name GA1116. select-object Name Export-Csv.RenameComputers.csv -NoTypeInformationNow, we have a CSV file containing all computers that start with GA1116. Open this file and create a second column with a header of NewName. Beneath this, fill in the corresponding new computer names.Now let’s import this data into a new script and loop through each name change.
Here is our script. If you receive any connection errors, ensure that all of the computers are turned on. If they aren’t, why not use to wake them.Schedule Renames for Multiple ComputersIf you are renaming a large amount of computers (or working with machines that aren’t always connected), you will likely find the options above lacking. With a few modifications, you can have your computers rename themselves.
With all of that spare time you now have, you can keep reading DeployHappiness. Doesn’t that sound like a win-win! Good, here is our script. Like our example above, this script relies on a CSV file containing our current and new computer names.
The only real difference from above is the If statement. In PowerShell, $? Stores the exit value of the previous command. So by saying if ($?
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-eq $True), we are saying “if the computer rename was successful.If the rename was successful, we read the content of the CSV file and remove the newly renamed computer from the list. After running this script, only computers that weren’t successfully renamed will be left. By setting this script to run as a scheduled task, you can automate a large rename process with little effort! Of course, you will still want to. Isn’t that F1 shortcut key the coolest?
I am the system admin for a small business (120 employees) and I am looking at an easy way to rename all of the computers in the office to a more uniform naming convention.I have tried playing with the 'netdom renamecomputer' line in command prompt but that doesn't seem to work at all. Possibly because are not on a Group Policy.
We set our computers up using a WORKGROUP and then have our employees connect to work servers using Remote Desktop connections.Is there a Powershell tool or a program that i can download to help me rename all the computers in our network?P.S. We have mostly Win7 machines but recently we have added about 20 Win8 machines (in case that matters). In powershell you can use something similar to Bali's, but I would use powershell's get-wmiobject function instead, but this does the same thing.