I am beginning to wonder what functionality I am missing with Exchange 2003. I have been running a domain of 1200 users for over a year without a WINS server. Is it because we don't use Public folders? Any insight on what issues this may be causing that I am not noticing?
I have wondered this for awhile; since I read the some KB that said Exchange needs it, but without seeing any problems I decided to just let it go. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 5:24 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Living without WINS >Outlook/Exchange even fall into this, right? Yep- Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 Server require NetBIOS name resolution for full functionality: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837391 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cliffe Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:59 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:[ActiveDir] Living without WINS Much as I would like to see it go away too, I think there are still too many applications that require it. I'm not a programmer, so may be stating this wrong, but I believe a lot of apps. still use the NetBIOS API calls for name resolution, and so would fail without some type of NBNS on a routed network. Outlook/Exchange even fall into this, right? -DaveC Reuters ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Jessop Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:44 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [spam] [ActiveDir] Living without WINS Good evening (morning or night) to you all. We have a AD structure with the following setup. DCs and servers W2K3 AND W2K. PCs NT4, W2K and XP. Name Resolutions DNS Server (with WINS lookup) WINS All clients have DNS name resolution activated. Some (older clients have both WINS and DNS) Most NT 4.0 clients have AD client. Obviously the NT 4.0 client do not ddns. We also have 2 clusters with Windows 2000. My question is the following. If I create static DNS records for the NT4 clients, can I do without WINS? What pitfalls and issues are there? Thanks (in advance) for your help. Peter Jessop ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com To find out more about Reuters Products and Services visit http://www.reuters.com/productinfo Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd. 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/ 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/
