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Renaming of Computer's Name using VBScript

Asked by Manfredtoo in VB Script, Microsoft Operating Systems

Tags: computer, vbscript, rename, name

Hi Experts
Current, i got a script that enables me to view the current settings of the computer's name...
But upon display the name, i would like the user to have the option to change the existing computer name or to quit the script. may i know am is it going to be done? is it possible to merge this 2 scripts into one? e.g below

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=====Script=====Displays Computer Name
Option Explicit 
 
Dim Text, Title
Dim WshNetwork         ' Object variable
Text = "Networking information" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
Title = "Rename Hostname?"
 
' Create a new WshNetwork object to access network properties.
Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
 
Text = Text & "Computer name : " & WshNetwork.ComputerName & vbCrLf
Text = Text & "Domain : " & WshNetwork.UserDomain & vbCrLf
Text = Text & "User name : " & WshNetwork.UserName & vbCrLf
 
MsgBox Text, vbYesNo + vbQuestion, Title
 
=====End=====
 
=====Script=== Prompting user to rename or not
 
strComputerName = InputBox("Enter a new machine name for this computer:", "Rename Computer")
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & "." & "\root\cimv2")
Set colComputers = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select Name from Win32_ComputerSystem")
For Each objComputer in colComputers
      intErrorCode = objComputer.Rename(strComputerName)
      If intErrorCode <> 0 Then
            MsgBox "Error renaming computer. Error # " & intErrorCode
      Else
            Set objOutputFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strRenameFlag, True)
            objOutputFile.Close
            Set objOutputFile = Nothing
            MsgBox "Computer renamed. It will now reboot."
            objShell.Run "rundll32 shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 2", 1, False
      End If
Next
 
=====Exit=====
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Tags: computer, vbscript, rename, name
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