EJ, You can verify that you SID isn't tied to you computer name. Windows has the ability to support multiple NetBIOS computer names. If you are comfortable with editing the Windows registry you can add an OptionalNames string value to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanServer\Parameters section. Once the key has been added you can set the value to the production server's name. To test this requires that you stop the existing production VM and alter the DNS entry to point to your new VM. I have used this in a cold spare scenario to replace a failed compute tier server in a three tier EBI platform. SAS never complained. Vic
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