Guest Stu Posted April 28, 2008 Posted April 28, 2008 Done a lot of googling on this subject but can't seem to find the answers. I have a number of Windows 2003 WINS servers in a spoke/hub replication topology. There are some static WINS mappings scattered about the different servers but I'm looking to remove one particular server (call it SRV-A) from the topology but cant seem to see the recommendation way to migrate a static WINS mapping whilst maintaining 100% uptime and availability of the record. In the lab I had limited success manually readding the records statically to another owner (SRV-B), this bascially just duplicated the record on the new owner, 1 version of the records was set to infite with owner SRV-B and 1 set of records with expiration of next week and SRV-A as the owner. I then manually deleted all records with SRV-A as the owner but found that the SRV-B records would not replicate correctly. To resolve I had to delete the SRV-B records aswell and recreate. This obviously causes me an issue as by doing this I will potentially cause an outage in production while the records replicate naturally around the environment So the question is, does anyone know the recommended way of changing the owner of a static WINS mapping?
Guest Gis Bun Posted May 21, 2008 Posted May 21, 2008 RE: Static WINS mapping migration I can't answer everything below but if you change/remove a WINS address in the network settings, a reboot should not be required. "Stu" wrote: > Done a lot of googling on this subject but can't seem to find the > answers. I have a number of Windows 2003 WINS servers in a spoke/hub > replication topology. There are some static WINS mappings scattered > about the different servers but I'm looking to remove one particular > server (call it SRV-A) from the topology but cant seem to see the > recommendation way to migrate a static WINS mapping whilst maintaining > 100% uptime and availability of the record. > > In the lab I had limited success manually readding the records > statically to another owner (SRV-B), this bascially just duplicated > the record on the new owner, 1 version of the records was set to > infite with owner SRV-B and 1 set of records with expiration of next > week and SRV-A as the owner. I then manually deleted all records with > SRV-A as the owner but found that the SRV-B records would not > replicate correctly. To resolve I had to delete the SRV-B records > aswell and recreate. This obviously causes me an issue as by doing > this I will potentially cause an outage in production while the > records replicate naturally around the environment > > So the question is, does anyone know the recommended way of changing > the owner of a static WINS mapping? >
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