Settings DNS in WinPe

[pseegars]

I'm trying to do some testing in our RnD domain with a WinPE based
deployment. Problem is that the default DNS dished out by DHCP is for
my production domain, so it keeps failing when trying to find RnD
resources (DP, MP, etc) How can I set the DNS server used by WinPE?

Paul Seegars
SMS-MOM-Group Policy

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

If using WinPE 2005 you can set DNS using the following script (does
not work in WinPE 2004):

Sample script: setdns.vbs

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."
strDNSHostName = "client1"
strDNSDomain = "tslab.net"
arrDNSServerSearchOrder = Array("192.168.16.2", "192.168.16.3")
arrDNSDomainSuffixSearchOrder = Array("tslab.net")

Set objWMIService =
GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer
& "\root\cimv2")
Set objNicConf =
objWMIService.Get("Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration")

intEnableDNS = objNicConf.EnableDNS(strDNSHostName, strDNSDomain,
arrDNSServerSearchOrder, arrDNSDomainSuffixSearchOrder)

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regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup/Deployment

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

Followup, you can of course also use the hosts file in WinPE for
testing...


regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup/Deployment

 

[PRS]

Thanks for the quick response. That does the trick....


PRS