• renaming a server is a two part process;

    one occurs at the operating system; the second is for convenience in SQl server.

    You rename the server and then reboot.

    AFTER that has occurred, then you rename the SQL server's name it has for itself, just as you described already.

    then the two of them are syncronized.

    Lowell


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