Bleh, you know, this just won't go away. We've been thinking for some years
now that we'd soon be able to discard this service but we still have a few
legacy apps that keep hanging around. Anyway, on to my problem -
We have a global AD WAN, root domain with four child domains per continent
we have offices in. No operational problems. We had a Microsoft consultant
in here a few months ago for an AD Health Check. Guy was very good. One of
the things he had us modify was the way we had WINS setup. Went to a single
WINS server per office. All international WINS servers replicating to one
WINS server at home base, all North American offices replicating to another
WINS server at home base, and those two home base WINS servers replicating.
The problem, or really just an annoyance I suppose, is that we have some
records that have an expiration date that is two months old. I've spot
checked, and most of those records are for machines that no longer exist.
Some of those records are for machines that haven't existed for a long, long
time. However, there are WINS records for a couple of our international
domain controllers that have an expiration date of 3/22/09.
This past weekend I initiated a "purge database" on every WINS server in
North America. It appears to have had no effect. I also noticed that there
were about a dozen records that were owned by an HP printer in our Bucharest
office. I highlighted those, chose "delete", and chose "Replicate deltion
of the record to other servers (tombstone)". That is followed by a message
that says "Tombstoning replica records will cause this WINS server to take
ownership of the record. Do you want to continue?" Yes... Those records
won't go away, nor does the WINS server I'm operating from assume ownership
of the records.
So I'm being humbled by this service. I remember years ago when WINS got
all twisted up on us we'd just delete the databases & let them recreate.
Short of that, does anyone have some ideas to offer?
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