The place I work (Kansas Dept of Transportation) has a policy of renaming servers every time they are replaced (I’m talking about the box, not software). This causes no end of headaches because every program that references the server, every ODBC DSN, every linked table; etc has to be fixed. I maintain that this is a stupid policy. 500 points for a lucid description of why this is stupid, or links to a couple of sites that would say this is a stupid thing to do. I want something I can take to management to convince them to stop this. Can there actually be any reason you would want to rename a production server???
