Dear friends;
We have Windows XP and Windows 98 computers in active directory environment with Windows 2003 domain controller. Most of them use DHCP, but some of them use static TCP/IP settings.
I need a script to change DNS and WINS settings in statically configured computers. [Mass change in a domain] However, the script should identify that the computer is not using DHCP. Another issue is we also have some Windows 98 Computers, if the script can also support 98 machines, it would be great or you can offer an another way.
Thanks in advance,
Best Regards...
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Dont know if this will help your situation at all but if you are going to be making changes domain wide like this from time to time you may want to set up a DHCP server to assign reserved IPs. It is a bit more work but you can change IPs much easier this way and there are plenty of scripts to help you make mass changes.
You may not be aware, but your existing DHCP server can ALSO serve up static addresses. To do this, simply set up a DHCP Reservation in the DHCP Scope. A reservation requires the MAC address of the workstation, which you can obtain by running IPCONFIG /ALL from the command line. Thenm you provide the IP address of the machine that you want to statically assign. Finally, just configure the workstations for DHCP, and they'll get the right address automatically.
The nice thing about this solution is that you can create a NEW scope, with all new reservations, for your new IP address range, and then simply cut over from one scope to the other. I've done this a few times, such as when switching ISP's, and it works quite well.
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