Yesterday I faced a problem in which I need to change the computer name using PowerShell. First I was looking for some cmdlet which can do this job for me but there is not any builtin cmdlet for it.
This method is using WMI to do the task.
Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem
I am using Get-WMI to give me all the value of Win32_ComputerSystem.
You can see in the Output that the “Name” value contain our Computer name.
$computerName = Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem
After putting the command in to the $computerName variable, you can use the rename method to rename the computer.
$computername.Rename($name)
The Win32_ComputerSystem WMI class contain the method of .Rename() in which we need to provide a desired computer name in brackets.
~Pouyan
