Static WINS mapping migration

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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?
 
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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