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How to point Microsoft Dynamics 2010 GP Client to a different server

We created a Clone of a Production GP Server called GPDEV. It has new SID and rejoined to domain with different name. All appears fine.  

I also cloned a Production client machine (which contains all the GP Client stuff) and did the same with SID and Domain join. All appears fine.

How can I configure the Dynamic GP Client, to point to new new server GPDEV?
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Hi,

Dynamics GP uses a 32-bit ODBC DSN to connect to the SQL Server.  You can edit the DSN to change the server name.

Start -> Run
C:\Windows\SysWow64\odbcad32.exe
Click on the System DSN tab
Select the GP DSN and click Configure
Change the Server name then click Finish
You do not need to click Next, enter credentials, and test, but you can do so if you want


Thanks,

Steve Endow
Microsoft MVP - Dynamics GP
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Thanks Steve!
I didn't have a SYSTEM DSN on client side. I did have it on the Server side.
I ended up just adding a host entry on both Dev Client and Dev Server so the Prod computer name will get looped back.
It ended up working fine!.. but noticed there was a connection to a UNC path (to another machine) which contained our Dynamics shared folder.  

I copied the Prod share content onto the same Dev box and created a share with same name. On the Dev PC and server I included a Host file loopback entry for the Prod server that was hosting the Dynamics share.  
However, this now failed with  "Dexterity Runtime - Unknown dictionary error".

How can I set the new UNC for file(s) it is looking for?
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