Promoting Secondary Biztalk/SSO Server as Primary

We had dual Biztalk servers in Production and recently one of the server's crashed. We had to promote a secondary SSO Server as Primary and re-build the Primary Biztalk Server.

Promoting SSO Server is documented in Biztalk Server Documentation here and it looks simple.

We followed the documentation and promoted the server successfully. However when we opened the Biztalk Server Administration console, it just hung and nothing happened.

After some time, we realized that the Biztalk Administration console has the SSO Server name set in the Properties. As suspected promoting the SSO Server does not change the name in the Biztalk Administration console. So we had to go manually change the SSO Server name from the previous primary server name to one promoted.

It might be a good idea to pratice Diaster recovery in Development/QA before going to production, due to the glichtes in documentation here and there.