I have many questions:
Is there a definitive guidance doc or checklist?
I've read a few things that say you should have a separate AD envrionment for each "SP environment" - Is this true? What do you do if you only have one AD envrionment? how do/can you manage dev/test/prod features and items?
Is there:
some "rename" script that can rename "sp_prod" to "sp_test" or something.
I noticed that our email setup was sending email from test as if it was production (and really confusing our users!) so I change the email "from to be sharepoint_TEST@domain.com, and this has helped a little, however I noticed that a lot of our infopath forms and some excel/word docuemnts are still "hard coded" to point to "sp_prod" - how is it recommeded to manage this issue?
Thanks in advance for any direction