Microsoft Finally Deprecated WINS
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There was a time in the 1990s when Microsoft was taking a bet that WINS would be better than DNS, at least on the LAN. This proved to not be true and Microsoft officially made DNS their main mechanism with the release of Windows 2000 (NT 5) in 2000. That's 22 years ago. But for 22 years WINS has still been included and developed for Windows Server.
For those that haven't paid attention to the fine print, with the release of Windows Server 2022 (which we are deploying regularly) WINS is still included, of course, but they have announced that development has ceased and you can be sure that sometime, probably not in the next version of Windows, that WINS will no longer be included with it.
If you rely on WINS for anything, it is time to figure out where and start phasing it out now before it becomes painful.
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@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Finally Deprecated WINS:
There was a time in the 1990s when Microsoft was taking a bet that WINS would be better than DNS, at least on the LAN. This proved to not be true and Microsoft officially made DNS their main mechanism with the release of Windows 2000 (NT 5) in 2000. That's 22 years ago. But for 22 years WINS has still been included and developed for Windows Server.
For those that haven't paid attention to the fine print, with the release of Windows Server 2022 (which we are deploying regularly) WINS is still included, of course, but they have announced that development has ceased and you can be sure that sometime, probably not in the next version of Windows, that WINS will no longer be included with it.
If you rely on WINS for anything, it is time to figure out where and start phasing it out now before it becomes painful.
But WINS was always painful.
Just avoid additional pain.
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@travisdh1 said in Microsoft Finally Deprecated WINS:
But WINS was always painful.
Just avoid additional pain.Most people use and rely on it without realizing it. You'd be amazing how many networks use it for discovery still and no one in IT has even heard of it.
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@scottalanmiller Finally. . . I have a customer who insists that WINS is as good as it'll ever get. . .
Now maybe I can put their nose into it. .
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@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Finally Deprecated WINS:
@scottalanmiller Finally. . . I have a customer who insists that WINS is as good as it'll ever get. . .
Now maybe I can put their nose into it. .
How many clients even know what it is? Wow.
