WINS running on DC/DNS servers

M

Marlon

Currently WINS services are housed in two dedicated WIn2000 boxes.
I am doing a migration to WIn2003 and I am considering installing WINS in
the Win2003 DNS servers(ADI), instead of buying separate boxes for WINS.

Please let me know if that's a problem.
 
K

Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]

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Marlon said:
Currently WINS services are housed in two dedicated WIn2000 boxes.
I am doing a migration to WIn2003 and I am considering installing
WINS in the Win2003 DNS servers(ADI), instead of buying separate
boxes for WINS.

Please let me know if that's a problem.
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There should be no problem.
 
H

Herb Martin

Marlon said:
Currently WINS services are housed in two dedicated WIn2000 boxes.
I am doing a migration to WIn2003 and I am considering installing WINS in
the Win2003 DNS servers(ADI), instead of buying separate boxes for WINS.

Please let me know if that's a problem.
Click to expand...

For all but the very largest domains the WINS servers
are no big deal running with the AD and DNS.

If performance ever becomes a problem (unlikely on
today's modern hardware) you can consider additional
WINS servers or moving them to separate servers.
 

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