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Ensure all service packs and updates are applied before taking the snapshot. If you don't this can come back and bite you much later on.
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Cheers Pete - I think the live box is all up to date so hopefully that's taken care of, but I'll be having a check to make sure!
I was actually thinking more about any conflicts that could arise since I'm effectively using a duplicate of the live box (all the data servers are in the same subnet so are all visible to each other). I'm doing the obvious like changing SQL instance names, rebuilding maintenance plans that use SSIS, changing user credentials. Can you think of any others?
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Test it, re test it then test it again and if possible put the dev stuff on a separate network.
If all else fails blame the sys admin, unless you're doing that role in which case blame your manager for not hiring a suitably qualified sys admin.
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Should we assume from:
moon_stick wrote: changing server names etc
that you have also already looked at IP's - either changing IP's, or using isolated subnets? Or your Test / Dev environments are already partitioned on the network?
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Use Set_parms command to change IP and hostname
change it to new value and reboot.
#set_params hostname
#set_params ip_address
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no, it's weed man! 
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The kind of hosting you seem to be thinking of may not be what this forum intends to discuss...
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I went to a forum like that once... when I looked around and found myself here
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