Monitoring Agents – The first (and easiest) thing to be fixed were the monitoring agents (ie. MS Systems Center Operations Manager). All that took was a quick Redeploy and they came back online.
SQL Agent Jobs – The next issue was SQL Agent Jobs. Many of the maintenance jobs (eg. syspolicy_check_schedule_xxxx) have the server name hardcoded into them. This can be easily remediated by editing the job step properties and replacing the old server name with the new one.
Read on for more problems you might run into. None of these is insurmountable but they are annoying enough that I wouldn’t want to rename servers willy-nilly.