Planning, Migrating, and Maintaining WINS
As previously mentioned, WINS is necessary in most production environments because the overriding dependencies on NetBIOS that were built in to Windows have not entirely been shaken out. In fresh installations of Windows Server 2012, WINS might not be necessary, but for older, upgraded environments, plans should be made for WINS being around for a few years.
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