Using powershelll to rename local administrator account on remote domain member computers.

Question

_{Friday, March 30, 2018 5:49 PM}

Hello, 

I am trying the below script to read a text file of computers and rename the local administrator account but encountering an error.  

Please advise how to fix.  

Thanks. 

$computers = Get-Content -path C:\computers.txt
$accountname = Read-Host -prompt "Enter new accountname for administrator" -assecurestring
$decodedaccountname = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($accountname))
Foreach($computer in $computers)
{
 $computer
 $user = [adsi]"WinNT://$computer/administrator,user"
 $user.administrator.rename("newlocaladmin_name")
 $user.SetInfo()
 }

All replies (5)

_{Friday, March 30, 2018 6:37 PM ✅Answered}

** $user.Name = 'new_name'**

Regards kvprasoon

Not according to google

$admin=[adsi]"WinNT://./Administrator,user" 
$admin.psbase.rename("NewUserNameHERE")

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_{Friday, March 30, 2018 5:51 PM}

So you are encountering an error, but didn't think it would be helpful to actually post the error you are having?

Let me see if my Jedi Mind reading trick works..........nope it doesn't

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_{Friday, March 30, 2018 6:08 PM}

Method invocation failed because [System.Management.Automation.PSMethod] does not contain a method named 'rename'.
At C:\chgacctname.ps1:8 char:2
+  $user.administrator.rename("newlocaladmin")
+  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound

_{Friday, March 30, 2018 6:22 PM}

try $user.psbase.rename()

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_{Friday, March 30, 2018 6:28 PM}

** $user.Name = 'new_name'**

Regards kvprasoon