Set DNS to automatic across multiple NIC's

I have a client with 100(ish) computers. Whoever their IT firm was before us has manually set DNS on most of these computers. I would like to set all NICs on all computers to dynamic, and pull the DNS server address from DHCP server. The problem is I can't
use netsh because it would require the network adapter name. There are multiple NICs on the computers, some are named Ethernet, some are named Local Area Connection, ect.
Is there a way to script this with powershell? I know I can use
Set-DnsClientServerAddress –InterfaceIndex ? -ResetServerAddressesbut I need the interface index, which will be different across various computers. Can I pipe the output of get-netadapter (which shows if index) and input all of them?Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

If you define the DNS servers in DHCP the clients will use it.
With PowerShell you can set the client to use DHCP. look in Gallery for numerous scripts that will do this.
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Thank you JRV for the prompt response! I have a script that forces all adapters to use DHCP, which does change them from static to DHCP, but this does not change the DNS servers. I was able to get the DNS servers reset to automatic by using
Get-NetAdapter | Set-DnsClientServerAddress -ResetServerAddresses
thanks to Jordan Mills in the Powershell forum. Also, thank you for the script, but most clients here are Windows 7, but I did not specify. Thanks again for the help!

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