RE: [ActiveDir] WINS

[Dan DeStefano]

Title: Re: [ActiveDir] WINS

Did you just remove WINS or did you also disable NetBIOS on your network? Isn’t it the case that as long as NetBIOS is enabled and being used on your network that you should also be using WINS as this will greatly reduce broadcasts and improve name-resolution, especially across subnets? From what I understand, the only reason to remove WINS is if you are also going to disable NetBIOS on your network.   Dan     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Noy, Glen Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 2:34 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WINS   Okay, I will  look into it also.  We removed WINS from our forest about a year ago and have seen no ill effects. We are not real big, 2000 exchange accounts and 25000 users, but everything seems to be running fine without it. Over the next few months, we are going to add student accounts to Exchange, so we will end up with quite a few more accounts.   If I find out anything I will post it.   Thanks,   glen The University of Texas at Dallas   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Mezzone Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:20 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] WINS I'll look when I get home. I remember reading about it a year ago and was bummed out. I thought I could rid myself of wins. I did run Exchange without wins for a while but added it being MS recommends it. Only thing is it didn't give a reason why. Just said it was needed. It may not be the deployment guide, it's in one of the three recommended reading documents, deployment, admin guide and I forget the name of the other doc (planning an exchange environment?) Robert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> Sent: Sun Mar 06 13:27:42 2005 Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WINS Just curious, where in the deployment guide does it say that Exchange 2003 needs WINS?  We are running a clustered Exchange 2003 setup and we don't have WINS configured on our domain. glen [EMAIL PROTECTED]    The University of Texas at Dallas ________________________________         From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert Mezzone         Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 12:20 PM         To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org         Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] WINS                         Unfortunetly it does. I thought it didn't until I read the deployment guide. Recently upgraded for 5.5.                 Robert                         -----Original Message-----         From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>         Sent: Sun Mar 06 12:55:30 2005         Subject: [ActiveDir] WINS                 Is WINS still needed for exchange 2003? Some have said outlook still needs         WINS.                 List info   : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx         List FAQ    : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx         List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/