Hi I have a situation where we would like to Clone a Server which has the SCCM client installed. The name of the new server is going to be a name of a different server that we used to have managed by SCCM but now no longer exists. The thing is the record for this server still exists in SCCM. I know that you can have the same hostname multiple times in SCCM but how does it figure out that the new cloned server which has the same name as the server that now does not exist is not the same one? Thanks

I'd follow those steps: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694095.aspx