{"id":2642,"date":"2013-10-28T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/28\/powertip-rename-a-computer-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-rename-a-computer-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-rename-a-computer-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Rename a Computer with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use Windows PowerShell to rename a newly created computer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to rename a computer if I don&rsquo;t know the machine name?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Rename-Computer<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and the built in&nbsp;<strong>HOSTNAME<\/strong>&nbsp;command, then reboot the computer.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For example, to rename a computer to called MININT-123 to CONTOSO-FS:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">RENAME-COMPUTER &ndash;computername MININT-123 &ndash;newname CONTOSO-FS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to rename a newly created computer. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to rename a computer if I don&rsquo;t know the machine name? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Rename-Computer&nbsp;cmdlet and the built in&nbsp;HOSTNAME&nbsp;command, then reboot the computer.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For example, to rename a computer to called MININT-123 to CONTOSO-FS: RENAME-COMPUTER &ndash;computername MININT-123 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,3,154,45],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to rename a newly created computer. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to rename a computer if I don&rsquo;t know the machine name? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Rename-Computer&nbsp;cmdlet and the built in&nbsp;HOSTNAME&nbsp;command, then reboot the computer.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; For example, to rename a computer to called MININT-123 to CONTOSO-FS: RENAME-COMPUTER &ndash;computername MININT-123 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}