Mass change Microsoft DNS & IIS server settings

Question

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.

Jacob · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-07T22:25:22.200

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

edited Mar 07 '15 at 22:25

answered Jan 30 '11 at 22:02

Jacob

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I ended up using dnsdump http://www.reskit.net/DNS/dnsdump.cm_ to dump the DNS config then used PSPad to do a multi file find and replace, then imported the changed config with dnsdump. – Antonius Bloch Jan 31 '11 at 01:30
For the IIS config I created a backup configuration in IIS Manager, edited the backupname.MD0 file and then restored the backup. Worked like a charm. – Antonius Bloch Jan 31 '11 at 01:32

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '11 at 00:25

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

Mass change Microsoft DNS & IIS server settings

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