Renaming WSUS server

[Amtrak23]

Current server is named "server1", new server is "server2". Once I get
server2 synched to one can I rename it back to the original server without
any problems?

Server2 will end up running as WSUS 3.0, on Windows server 2003, WMSDE.

[Lawrence Garvin [MVP]]

"Amtrak23" <Amtr...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Current server is named "server1", new server is "server2". Once I get
> server2 synched to one can I rename it back to the original server without
> any problems?

Probably.... but what's the point? Why not name the server properly *first*,
and then synchronize the system?

What will get mucked up is the upstream server's awareness of what it thinks
the downstream servers are.

> Server2 will end up running as WSUS 3.0, on Windows server 2003, WMSDE.

Uh... no it won't, because WSUS 3.0 doesn't run on WMSDE.

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Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCTS, MCP
MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2007)