Use of Hyperlinks in documents --- what will we do...

Question

We want to upgrade our SharePoint Foundation (SPF) 2010, ServerA,   to SPF 2013 on new hardware, ServerB.  The two boxes have different names.  I spoke to the heavy SPF 2010 users and they make liberal use of hyperlinks in their spreadsheets
stored in the site to other documents in the same site. So when we try to move everything to ServerB it will break their hyperlinks. (That's the day I go on vacation );
OK, this is a problem we have to deal with but how can it be
avoided in the future? I understand the need to "link" to other documents in SharePoint but is there an alternative approach that avoids the server name dependency?
TIA,
edm2

Answer 1

Use the same URL in the destination server. You can add an AAM that mirrors what was used on ServerA to the Web Application in use on ServerB, update DNS for that name to point to ServerB, and off your users go, not knowing any better.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263208(v=office.15).aspx
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