Renaming computers remotely

steinooo · 23 Jul 2012 at 10:48

Hi all

Does anyone know if Quest migration tool allows you to rename windows computers remotely?

I am attempting this using a vb script and powers hell script and wondering if it would be easier to pay for a tool

Thanks!

steinooo · 23 Jul 2012 at 11:42

Cheers lizard king I have a script which uses netdom but running into some issues with it which made me wonder, spend time to troubleshoot it or buy software which could make my life easier. I think I will persist to troubleshoot a little first though as its quite fun for starters :-)

To ed: over 800 all different sites across the world and renaming to standardise

steinooo · 25 Jul 2012 at 16:25

OK thanks for the offer, never thought of asking for help but I need it! Dunno if this is the right forum for a script or not, but here goes:

Code:

for /f "tokens=1,2 skip=1" %a in ('find /i "%computername%" c:\scripts\names.txt') do psexec \\%a -u username -p password netdom renamecomputer %a /newname: b /userD:username /passwordd:password /usero:user passwordo:password /reboot:60

steinooo · 25 Jul 2012 at 16:35

Current issue I have with that for loop is that it's not reading the string correctly, it's reading it as "---------"

I'm not using powershell because I havn't found a script that can do what I want using it.

steinooo · 25 Jul 2012 at 16:48

no, I'm inheriting the script, I don't define computername variable, that is the script in it's entirety. The contents of names.txt is just test then a tab then test2

steinooo · 26 Jul 2012 at 19:02

cheers mal man, will give that a go when i'm back in 2moro!