Help with renaming PC

siringo

Hoping someone can help me out with this.

I need to rename a bunch of PCs & want to use a simple script.

I found this:

*@ECHO OFF

set PC=NEW_PC_NAME

wmic path win32_computersystem where "Name='%computername%'" CALL rename name='%PC%'*

I've not tested it yet, but is there a way I can make the script prompt me to enter the new PC name???

Or any other way I can achieve this???

Thanks for any help.

JaredBusch

Use powershell

Rename-Computer -NewName somename

hobbit666

I use this when setting up new machines

$ServiceTAG = "PC-$((Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS).serialnumber)"
$OLDNAME = (Get-WmiObject win32_COMPUTERSYSTEM).Name
Rename-Computer -ComputerName $OLDNAME -NewName $ServiceTAG -force

 $ServiceTAG = "PC-$((Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS).serialnumber)"
        $OLDNAME = (Get-WmiObject win32_COMPUTERSYSTEM).Name
        Rename-Computer -ComputerName $OLDNAME -NewName $ServiceTAG -force

Dashrender

@jaredbusch said in Help with renaming PC:

Use powershell

Rename-Computer -NewName somename

It could easily take you longer to find a script than just type this command on each machine.

siringo

@dashrender said in Help with renaming PC:

@jaredbusch said in Help with renaming PC:
Use powershell
Rename-Computer -NewName somename
It could easily take you longer to find a script than just type this command on each machine.

I agree.

Just trying to find a quick way to change the PC name and add to a domain.

The domain name has 32 characters in it.

siringo

thanks for all help so far.

can anyone help me with a way in which I can add a PC description via command line/powershell etc?

I'm trying to remove the need for typing as I stuff up more things than get right.

I can create a unique PC name from the above, so I've deceide if I can add a useful common description to each PC I can then identify them via the description field.

siringo

@siringo Thought I'd add this for others may be looking:

$value = @{Description = 'My own gaming computer'}
Set-CimInstance -Query 'Select * From Win32_OperatingSystem' -Property $value

siringo

@hobbit666 said in Help with renaming PC:

I use this when setting up new machines

$ServiceTAG = "PC-$((Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS).serialnumber)"
$OLDNAME = (Get-WmiObject win32_COMPUTERSYSTEM).Name
Rename-Computer -ComputerName $OLDNAME -NewName $ServiceTAG -force
 $ServiceTAG = "PC-$((Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS).serialnumber)"
        $OLDNAME = (Get-WmiObject win32_COMPUTERSYSTEM).Name
        Rename-Computer -ComputerName $OLDNAME -NewName $ServiceTAG -force

this was a great help, thank you @hobbit666 . I changed it to this:

"B311-$("$env:computername$(get-random)")"
$OLDNAME = (Get-WmiObject win32_COMPUTERSYSTEM).Name
Rename-Computer -ComputerName $OLDNAME -NewName $ServiceTAG -force -restart

As the netbios names were displaying as the same.