Cross Forest migration of WINS data
I know that WINS is a depreciated technology but we have been asked to explore any possibility to migrate WINS data from Forest A to Forest B. Both forests are at Windows Server 2008 FFL/DFL.
Is this something which can be achieved ?
ThanksHA
December 31st, 1969 7:00pm
WINS is NT legacy software and knows nothing about Active Directory. For that reason, forests have no meaning to WINS. I cannot see why you could not replicate between these two WINS servers. What have you tried? Bill
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December 31st, 1969 7:00pm
Hi HA,
I agree with Bill.
Based on my knowledge, we just need to make our WINS Servers accessible for both networks and configure WINS replication for them.
WINS replication overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc783226(v=ws.10).aspx
Hope this helps.
Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support
January 13th, 2013 8:38am