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Want to remove WINS from a number of servers. Is there a special process for this?
We have way too many WINS servers and we want to decommission a number of them. I have not done this since my NT 4.0 days. I don't think its as easy as uninstallling WINS and removing the replication partners is it? Is there a special process to follow to decommission WINS servers. I could not find anything about this.
What wins model is setup. If you are using the "hub and spoke" model and the server you want to remove are spokes then just removing them should be fine. If you are using another model just make sure that the you replace the replication partners with other existing servers.
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Its hub and spoke design. We are decommissioning all the spokes. I remember in my NT 4.0 days you had to first tombstone all the records owned by the server you were decommissioning and then force replication of the tombstone records, then remove WINS. The reason for this was you were supposed not able to remove a WINS record on a server if it was owned by another server that was not around anymore. Just wondering if this has changed or not. If we just shut down the spokes, there will be a lot of records on other servers owned by the deomissioned spoke server. Will this cause a problem?
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