Comments on: PowerShell Scripting with WMI Part 2

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:40:36 +0000

Hi
Any way you can use a variable for the
$DNSServers = “10.124.66.22″,”10.4.4.10″

section, i’e. Ask the user which location they are in and set the default DNS servers for that location?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:46:38 +0000

This script worked great on both a WinXP and Win7 box, except that it did not populate the WINS IP setting. What might be the cause for this?
I am testing this out on my workstations before unleashing on all of our network servers.
Also, is there away to get an output file that notes if the DNS/WINS was changed or not?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:45:17 +0000

This is pretty straight forward. However, I am having problems making changes on windows 2008 boxes. Can anyone help

By: Dillon

Dillon — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:13:50 +0000

Awesome Tutorial! Plain and simple, just the way it should be.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:55:40 +0000

How do I run this powershell script to change dns and wins on remote systems? Like all of my servers?

By: steino

steino — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:42:23 +0000

Hi all,

is it possible to change mask and gateway for multiple servers?

By: arnold

arnold — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:56:40 +0000

hello sir,

pls,how i can change my ISP? from my provider?

my best regard
arnold

By: rudy de vries

rudy de vries — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:44:08 +0000

you should use $true instead of “true”
because “false” equals also to boolean true ($false equals to boolean false)

By: Haji A

Haji A — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:09:00 +0000

I have two questions:

1) Foreach($NIC in $NICs) { } is always used in the article. What if I want to use a method on a particular object, what do I do then?

2) In the remote shut-down example, I am getting an “UnauthorizedAccessException”, how I can I fix that? =)

Regards

By: Dave L.

Dave L. — Fri, 13 May 2011 15:15:17 +0000

Hi, I have been looking for something this simple and it is amazing. I have 2 questions.

1) How do I run this on another computer using the invoke-command, or do I even need to use that.
2) On the script, do I even need to have the last 3 lines of code really – $NIC.SetDNSServerSearchOrder($DNSServers)
$NIC.SetDynamicDNSRegistration(”TRUE”)
$NIC.SetWINSServer(”172.18.1.52?, “172.18.1.169?)

I am brand new to all of this.

I do have something to add a little, it is a reboot/logoff/restart/shutdown for our other admins here to use at the office.

# pegasus = computer name
# sunnymuffin = command
# Commands:
# 0 – Log Off
# 4 – Forced Log Off
# 1 – Shutdown
# 5 – Forced Shutdown
# 2 – Reboot
# 6 – Forced Reboot
# 8 – Power Off
# 12 – Forced Power Off
#
# Show only the following – 4, 5, 6 – force logoff of user, force shutdown, 6 force reboot

$pegasus = read-host “Type the computername or ip address”

$sunnymuffin = read-host “Choose the following number:
4 – logoff user
5 – shutdown
6 – reboot”

(gwmi win32_operatingsystem -ComputerName $pegasus).Win32Shutdown($sunnymuffin)

thanks for putting this up!