Hello



I about to undertake a migration project which consists of the
following:



A Windows NT 4 and Exchange 5.5 migration to Windows 2003 and Exchange
2003



I currently have in place WINS in the NT environment



I have migrated NT domain environment to Windows 2003 DC environments
without the migration of WINS ( unnecessary under Widows 200x due to DNS
if no legacy applications are in place)



1) Now due I need to implement WINS on the Windows 2003 box in
preparation for the migration of Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2003.



2) And if I do need to implement it due I need to replicate the Wins
database with my old database



Or



Can I get clients point towards to the new Wins database before the
migration?





Regards



Tony

Re: WINS and Exchange 2003 migration by Brian

Brian
Fri May 27 14:54:15 CDT 2005

You have not given us enough information. What clients are you
running. WINS is only necessary if you have Win9x and/or WinNT 4
clients. If you do not, then DNS will work for you.

However, your migration will go a lot smoother if you install WINS on
the new server with push/pull to the old WINS server. You will need a
domain trust to get it to work. Once you are done migrating
everything, remove the WINS setting from DHCP. Once all clients have
stopped using WINS (and they all work) remove the WINS server.


Re: WINS and Exchange 2003 migration by Mark

Mark
Sat May 28 02:46:14 CDT 2005

On 27 May 2005 12:54:15 -0700, "Brian Kronberg"
<brian.kronberg@gmail.com> wrote:

>You have not given us enough information. What clients are you
>running. WINS is only necessary if you have Win9x and/or WinNT 4
>clients. If you do not, then DNS will work for you.

You should still use WINS with Exchange 2003:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837391
>
>However, your migration will go a lot smoother if you install WINS on
>the new server with push/pull to the old WINS server. You will need a
>domain trust to get it to work. Once you are done migrating
>everything, remove the WINS setting from DHCP. Once all clients have
>stopped using WINS (and they all work) remove the WINS server.