Renaming Windows 2003 server

• dwjongbloed

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  December 2, 2009 at 6:48 am

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  I am going to be renaming a windows 2003 server in the near future. Will this also change the name of my SQL server engine? For example clients that used to connect to - SERVERA will they now need to connect to SERVERB or does the SQL side stay as SERVERA?

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  December 2, 2009 at 4:37 pm

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  Technet Article:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143799.aspx

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