Get Computer Name Using Powershell
- coding
- 2023-12-10
- 1 minute to read
Introduction
There are a few ways to get the computer name using Powershell. One way is to use the environment variable $env:COMPUTERNAME however, this doesn’t work on a Mac.
Other options
Here are a few options to get the computer name using Powershell that work consistently on both Windows and Mac.
MachineName property of the Environment class
[Environment]::MachineName
GetHost() method
[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostName()
Using the output
Both of these options will return the computer name as a string allowing you to pass the value into a variable.
$name = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostName()
Write-Host "Computer name is ${name}"
> Computer name is Justin-MacStudioM2.local
$name = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostName()
Write-Host "Computer name is ${name}"
> Computer name is Justin-MacStudioM2.local
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