Rename Computers Using PowerShell and a CSV File

Question

_{Saturday, October 15, 2016 12:32 PM}

Greetings,

I am about to change over 100 Domain computer names in our organization and would like to do it through Powershell.

I found an script that changes the computer name with csv file but i am not able to get it going :/

function ComputerExists ($sam) { [bool]([adsisearcher]"(sAMAccountName=$sam$)").FindOne() }

$csvfile = "C:\temp\rename.csv" 
$csv = Import-Csv $csvfile 
    foreach ($c in $csv) {
    $oldName = $c.oldName
    $newName = $c.newName  
    if (-not(ComputerExists $newName)) {
        Write-Host "Renaming computer from: $oldName to: $newName" 
        netdom renamecomputer $oldName /newName:$newName /uD:domain\user /passwordD:"" /force
        }
    else { Write-Host "$newName already exists" }
    }

I am getting error message 

Renaming computer from:  to: 
The parameter /newName was unexpected.

The syntax of this command is:

NETDOM [ ADD | COMPUTERNAME | HELP | JOIN | MOVE | QUERY | REMOVE |
         MOVENT4BDC | RENAMECOMPUTER | RESET | TRUST | VERIFY | RESETPWD ]

Try "NETDOM HELP" for more information.

I appreciate all help!
Thanks!

All replies (2)

_{Saturday, October 15, 2016 1:35 PM ✅Answered}

Case closed got it resolved. Found a new script

$cred = get-credential    
$Computers = import-csv c:\temp\rename.csv 
foreach ($Computer in $Computers){ 
Rename-Computer -NewName $Computer.NewName -ComputerName $Computer.Name -DomainCredential $cred -Restart
}

_{Saturday, October 15, 2016 1:03 PM}

Greetings Richard,

Thank you for replying back to me.
My CSV file looks like this -

"$OldName,$NewName"
"PXE,PXEE" This is only a test computer