stsadm -o renameserver
I noticed this new operation for the STSADM command line and wondered what it was exactly. As I hoped, it seems to be a mechanism to make it easier to rename a server hosting WSS. I’ve never had to do this in the ‘wild’, but I think it may solve a major pain in my reams of Virtual PC WSS/SPS images. I’ll try it out and report on the results.
Server renaming: Windows SharePoint Services version 3 now has an Stsadm renameserver command that makes it easier to rename your front-end servers and your back-end database servers. When you run Stsadm renameserver, the configuration database for your farm is updated so that any URLs or references to the old server name are now mapped to the new server name.