Clinton Cherry beschreibt in seinem Blog, welche Schritte notwendig sind, um eine SharePoint Instanz umzubenennen. Allerdings ist das ganze natürlich unsupported:

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Anyway, I thought I'd share the steps that I go through when duplicated a SharePoint image (and these are pretty much the same steps as renaming an image should this be what you needed to do.

1. Go to the Sharepoint Central Administration > Operations > Services on Server  and stop "Windows SharePoint Services Search"
2. Rename your server, however wait until step 5 until you restart it
3. If you have MS SQL Server installed, you will also need to rename this. Go to "SQL Server Management Studio" and execute the following script
   EXEC sp_dropserver '<old_name>'
   GO
   EXEC sp_addserver '<new_name>', 'local'
4. Update SharePoint references of the new name by calling the script:
   stsadm -o renameserver -oldservername <old server name> -newservername <new server name>
5. Restart your PC
6. If you try to open Central Administration after restarting PC it will try to open the site with the old server name. To recreate your Central Administration site for the new server name, call the following command using a port number for the new location of central admin:
   psconfig -cmd adminvs -provision -port 12345 -windowsauthprovider onlyusentlm
7. Restart IIS and try to open your Central Admin site. It should successfully open your site with new server name
8. Go to the "Application Management" and remove websites that reference the old machine name
9. If you already have a search index drop this, and rebuild it

Now you should have a nicely renamed machine. You may find you need to create your site collections for SSP and My Sites, but this shouldn't be too hard.

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Q: http://clintcherry.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns%21AEC0DCBC460E45B9%21647.entry