I actually just did this about a week ago and it went very smoothly. When you change the machine name in the control panel, your ArcGIS Server instance will automatically update. All of your map services residing on the server will update, as well. There may be a bit of lag time in your DNS server, but that should update automatically, too. Once you change names on the server, open a command window from a different machine and ping the new server name and you should get a reply. If you do not, you may need to use the command ipconfig /flushdns on the non-server machine and then ping it again. You may need your network administrator to help if you run into issues (i.e. remove the server from your domain and then rejoin the domain, which will force the DNS server to recognize the new server name). As for ArcGIS Server, everything should be automatic. On the client side, if you have any applications that point to map services or mxds that point to the old name, you'll need to update those to the new name. Hope this helps~
I actually just did this about a week ago and it went very smoothly. When you change the machine name in the control panel, your ArcGIS Server instance will automatically update. All of your map services residing on the server will update, as well. There may be a bit of lag time in your DNS server, but that should update automatically, too. Once you change names on the server, open a command window from a different machine and ping the new server name and you should get a reply. If you do not, you may need to use the command ipconfig /flushdns on the non-server machine and then ping it again. You may need your network administrator to help if you run into issues (i.e. remove the server from your domain and then rejoin the domain, which will force the DNS server to recognize the new server name). As for ArcGIS Server, everything should be automatic. On the client side, if you have any applications that point to map services or mxds that point to the old name, you'll need to update those to the new name. Hope this helps~
