# Setting windows host/machine name using ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-windows-host-machine-name-using-ansible/27640>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [May 27, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-windows-host-machine-name-using-ansible/27640 "2018-05-27T11:16:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ali\_Khawaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ali\_Khawaja](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ali_Khawaja)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-windows-host-machine-name-using-ansible/27640/1 "2018-05-27T11:16:46Z")

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Hi,

is there a way in ansible to set the name of the windows host when we are creating the ec2 instance or maybe change it afterwards?

Thanks  
Ali

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**Author:** ![David\_Villasmil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@David\_Villasmil](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Villasmil)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-windows-host-machine-name-using-ansible/27640/2 "2018-05-27T11:50:09Z")

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You can use ec2\_tags.

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**Author:** ![ali.khawaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@ali.khawaja](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ali.khawaja)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-windows-host-machine-name-using-ansible/27640/3 "2018-05-27T12:32:00Z")

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win\_domain\_user requires a domain\_server parameter. i need to retrieve the server name from the newly created ec2 instance to use in this command.