What's the story with WINS?

posted by  techgeek (12)  11 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Recently, someone asked the following question on an internal Microsoft distribution list:

Can someone please outline the ways in which Exchange 2003 is dependant upon WINS..?

Here's the answer I wrote back:

Exchange 2003 is dependent upon three different things that are related to WINS:

1) DNS resolution of "short names" - i.e. there are places in the Exchange 2003 code where it uses the standard DNS resol