Sage 200 and computer names....

[DavePa]

We are having an updated Sage 200 installed but when installing it on my machine I get an error that states "The computer name must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit and have the interior characters of only letter, digits and hyphens". According to the consultants this is in line with MS KB 909264 and is a requirement for Sage on both servers and workstations. I've run the previous version without problem for years so have no idea why it has been changed now. In common with a lot of people we use SCCM to image machines and grab the serial number of the machine to be the computer name. I've now got to identify any machine that is likely to run sage, drop if off of the domain, rename it nd rejoin it before I can install Sage.

 

Anybody else had this as an issue and did you manage to find a workaround or give in and start manually renaming machines?

[FN-GM]

One of the reasons we went to the new Sage Online for education.

 

You don't have to remove from the domain to rename. Just rename it.

[DavePa]

Sage Online for education? I've not seen that - not surprising really as I'm IT rather than accounts but I've always been expected to have a Sage account although I don't know the 1st thing about it! I'll make enquiries