Setting up a Service Manager Lab environment with prod. data

Hi
I´m about to set up a lab environment with production data. I´m following the guide here;  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj900180.aspx
I have a question regarding the Management Group. The Lab environment will have the same Management group name. In the guide nothing is mentioned about changing the name of the management group.
Will this be a problem when i fire up the Lab environment?
/Regards

Well in the guide https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj900180.aspx states that you should
install a secondary management server and stop the services, backup prod. db, restore prod db on the secondary server (lab-server), change  a bunch of rows in different tables.
So naturally it will have the same management
group name.
Am i missing something?

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