After a week of smooth running, my Dell t310 servername reverted to the service tag and screwed everything up!

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Published on 2011-06-27T23:28:21Z Indexed on 2011/06/28 0:23 UTC
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Has this happened to anyone else? Began having a tremedous amount of problems with our brand new Dell SBS 2011 T310 server and after nearly 15 hours will Dell support, they determined that the server name hade reverted to DXXXXXXXX ("D: + the service tag). The Dell tech said that this was a major major problem. I'm the only person with any access to the machine and I didn't attempt to change the server name. The tech said it didn't look as if anyone had hacked the box but something had replaced "OurCompanyServer" with "DXX12XX"

It would seem to me, simply changing the server name back to what I originally had would correct the problem, but the Dell tech said it wasn't that easy.

Anyone encounter this?

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