First off, you will need to download the Windows XP Support tools from here

Install the support tools to the default path.

 After it is installed, we are going to create a vb script.
Open Notepad and copy and paste the following text into Notepad

COPY EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE
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'On Error Resume Next

'open the file system object
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set WSHShell = wscript.createObject("wscript.shell")

Dim sNewCname     'Variable to hold Computer Name you enter in the inputbox
Dim sOldCname        'computers current name

'First param is message text, second is message title
sOldCname = InputBox("Enter computers current name","Windows 2k3 Netdom Rename Script")
sNewCname = InputBox("Enter computers new name","Windows 2k3 Netdom Rename Script")

Call WSHShell.Run("cmd.exe /K netdom renamecomputer " & sOldCname & " /newname:" & sNewCname & " /userd:DOMAIN\ADMINISTRATOR /passwordd:PASSWORD /usero:DOMAIN\ADMINISTRATOR /passwordo:PASSWORD /force ")

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COPY EVERYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE

After you copy and paste the text into notepad, replace the capitalized text on the last line to fit your network. For the password fields, if you do not want to store passwords in clear text in the vbs file, replace PASSWORD with *. Save the file as Remotely_Change_Computername.vbs and save it in a location you will remember.

When you run the script it will prompt you for the current computername, type in the current computer name and press enter.
It will then ask you for the name you want to change the computername to, type in what you want to change it to and press enter.
If you stored the passwords in the vbs file, it will automatically rename the computer, if you put the * in the place of the password in the vbs file it will prompt you for the passwords to the usernames you entered. After completing these steps, the remote machine will be renamed.

Note: You can just run the netdom.exe file from the command line using netdom.exe renamecomputer OldName /NewName /userd:DOMAIN\ADMINISTRATOR /passwordd:PASSWORD /usero:DOMAIN\ADMINISTRATOR /passwordo:PASSWORD /force
I just like to have a few click access without running to a command prompt and remembe which switches to add to complete my task.

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ballycotton   | Registered | 08-05-2007 09:27:03 Cant the oldname be got automatically through the cmd prompt? Instead of using what you have done below? sOldCname = InputBox("Enter computers current name","Windows 2k3 Netdom Rename Script" Reply | Quote 1   0

ceharden - Reply   | Author | 23-05-2007 09:11:30 This script is run locally on an admin computer to change the name of a remote machine. This is why I enter the name of a "remote" computer to change its name. Reply | Quote 0   0

Nnyan - automate?   | Registered | 05-09-2007 13:13:00 Anyway that we can get this to work from a csv (ex: oldname:newname) file without the prompts? It would be nice if it would then dump the success/failures into another file for review. Thanks! Reply | Quote 0   0

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