Doing some more digging online, it sounds like if I back up the master, MSDB and published databases (the distributor is on a different server) and restore them with replication settings intact to a server with the same host machine name I should be good. Does anyone know of any common missteps or issues with this process? (which databases go first, drop the databases to single user mode, etc) that I should keep in mind when we go to make this change?

We do have TDE enabled on the databases, I'm thinking the keys are stored in MSDB, so does that mean I won't need to pre-install the keys on the new server and will just be able to restore the databases as long as they are in the correct order, or will I need to install the keys after the system databases but before the user databases?

thanks,

Kevin