ADFS – How to rename a ADFS server ?

How to rename a internal ADFS server or ADFS proxy server ?

Please check that you don’t have any reference for certificate, federation name (ex: sts.domain.com) or alias on DNS record, then for the service account check if there is a dependency with the server name (serviceprincipalname)

Then you can now change the server name using the Control Panel, System applet and restart the Server.

First you must download and install SQL server management studio on Federation Server.

First, install the SQLManagement studio 2012 x64 on the ADFS primary server,

Start SQL management studio in ADMINISTRATOR MODE (members of local administrators has access to it)

Reference: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23563.windows-server-2012-r2-ad-fs-migrate-your-ad-fs-configuration-database-from-wid-to-sql-server.aspx

Connect to the WID with the SQL mgmt. studio at:

\\.\pipe\MICROSOFT##WID\tsql\query

For checking Instance name launch this SQL Query:

to verify the server name: select @@servername

Stop service: AD FS Windows Service

To rename Windows Internal Database instance launch this SQL Query:

syntax: “sp_dropserver ‘oldservername\instance name’ ”

sp_dropserver ‘OLDSERVERNAME\MICROSOFT##WID’

go

sp_addserver ‘NEWSERVERNAME\MICROSOFT##WID’, local

go

Now restart the WID server related services. Then, run @@servername to verify if the new name has been updated.

select @@servername