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Antonius Bloch
Asked: 2011-01-31 13:56:06 +0800 CST

Mass change Microsoft DNS & IIS server settings

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I need to change about 100 DNS records and IIS configurations on a Windows 2003 web server. The GUI doesn't accommodate it and the MS command line tools seem incomplete (for example: dnscmd cannot edit a record, only create). Is there a third party tool out there I can use?

Basically I just need to change one IP address to another.

iis iis-6 windows-dns

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I think something like this would help; you can edit the DNS file in your favorite text editor.

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  2. It's pretty easy to update dns records from the powershell command line, (as I was looking up a wmi query I found someone else that already wrote the code I was writing so here's the link)

    try this code: PowerShell: Script to make batch DNS changes

    From the site:

    $CNAMES = import-csv "Path to CSV file"
$Query = "Select * from MicrosoftDNS_CNAMEType"
Foreach($CNAME in $CNAMES)
{
$CNAME
$Record = Get-WmiObject -Namespace "root\microsoftdns" -Query $Query -ComputerName dnsserver | Where-Object{$_.Ownername -match $CNAME.Aliases}
$Record.RecordData = "FQDN of new IIS server"
$Record.put()
}

    The script can be modified to update any kind of DNS record, so it's not locked into just updated CNAME's

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