{"id":863,"date":"2023-06-07T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2023-06-17T02:47:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T02:47:15","slug":"managing-dns-records-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Creating Bulk DNS Records with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PowerShell is a great tool for managing your repetitive tasks with DNS records. In this example I will show you how you can bulk import DNS records to Windows DNS servers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to bulk create DNS Records with PowerShell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u5sxcaSJJGE?feature=oembed\" width=\"708\" height=\"398\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Populate a CSV with your device names and IP&#8217;s<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DNS_CSV.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"352\" \/><\/li>\n<li>In PowerShell, import your CSV with the devices and IPs:\n<pre>#Import CSV\r\n$devices = Import-Csv \"\\\\ServerPath\\devices.csv\"<\/pre>\n<p>3. Loop through the devices and create the DNS records<\/p>\n<pre>foreach($device in $devices)\r\n{       \r\n      #the following line creates the DNS record with the device name and IP from the imported CSV\r\n      Add-DnsServerResourceRecordA -Name $device.name -ZoneName \"yourdomain.com\" -AllowUpdateAny -IPv4Address $device.ip -TimeToLive 01:00:00\r\n}<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PowerShell is a great tool for managing your repetitive tasks with DNS records. In this example I will show you how you can bulk import DNS records to Windows DNS servers. &nbsp; &nbsp; Populate a CSV with your device names and IP&#8217;s In PowerShell, import your CSV with the devices and IPs: #Import CSV $devices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spktechfit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}