Some of the people have question that was it possible to make SharePoint development Farm to SharePoint production Farm using clone/hyper/virtual?
Yes, of course. we could make this possible using the below steps.
1. First take a clone of those SharePoint server farms.
2.Then take offline of the Development Machine and rename and change the IP address of those Clone SharePoint server farm.
3. once done the changed the machine name and IP, up the development SharePoint server farm.
4. then make the clone SharePoint server to use their own machine name for the URL and SQL server.
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