DNS Server IP Address change in Client Systems through Group Policy
Scenario: Recently our network team, restructure IP segments & it is recommended to change the IP address of our DNS server. It is an AD integrated DNS server & around 1000 desktops & laptops are in the network – all have static IP addresses. We need to change the DNS IP for all the systems. Procedure: We can change the DNS IP through Group Policy with the help of a simple *.bat file. We will apply the GPO in Startup as Computer base policy. But here tricky part is, we need run the batch file in "Run as Administrator" mode. Most of the Computer-based Startup GPO is not run in normal mode. The batch file as below, suppose it name DNSIP_Change.bat : Replace your DNS Server “ set dnsserver=X.X.X.X ” @echo off set dnsserver=10.10.10.31 set dnsserver2=10.10.10.30 for /f "tokens=1,2,3*" %%i in ('netsh interface show interface') do ( if %%i EQU Enabled ( rem echo change "%%l" : %dnsserver% netsh interface