Microsoft to remove WINS support after Windows Server 2025
Microsoft will remove WINS from Windows Server after the 2025 release to improve security and scalability, urging organizations to migrate to DNS by November 2034.
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Microsoft has confirmed WINS' death stop. The name resolution service, relic of the 90s, will live its last hours with Windows Server 2025 before disappearing completely. Administrators have until 2034 to modernize their infrastructure, under penalty of seeing their historical applications stop running.
Microsoft removes WINS from future Windows Server releases – OSnews
Blasts from the pasts are often fun, and in the case of feature removals from Windows, it’s often accompanied by surprise that the feature in question still existed. Case in point: This article provides essential information about the deprecation and planned removal of Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) from future Windows Server releases. Microsoft has announced that WINS will be removed from all Windows Server releases after Windows Server …
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