{"id":1839,"date":"2026-01-27T00:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:56:34","slug":"renaming-device-with-command-prompt-in-atera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Renaming Device with command prompt in Atera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you want to rename a device in Atera without opening the device through cmd<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>click Manage dropdown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1024x842.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1024x842.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-768x632.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1536x1264.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image.png 1720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click run as System command prompt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1-1024x842.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1-1024x842.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1-768x632.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1-1536x1264.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1.png 1720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Type: wmic computersystem where name=&#8221;%COMPUTERNAME%&#8221; call rename name=&#8221;NEWCOMPUTERNAME&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hit return<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Type in the console shutdown \/r \/t 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hit return<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reload Atera after the computer has restarted the computer should be renamed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to rename a device in Atera without opening the device through cmd click Manage dropdown Click run as System command prompt Type: wmic computersystem where name=&#8221;%COMPUTERNAME%&#8221; call rename name=&#8221;NEWCOMPUTERNAME&#8221; Hit return Type in the console shutdown \/r \/t 0 Hit return Reload Atera after the computer has restarted the computer should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,124,119,5,98,113,1,120],"tags":[130,131,132],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atera","category-command-line","category-hyper-v-stuff","category-it","category-it-knowledge-base-articles","category-servers","category-uncategorized","category-windows","tag-atera","tag-cmd","tag-rename","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}