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by dlhawkins69 Jul 24, 2001 last reply Jul 24, 2001

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IN NT 4.0 services registered themselves in a WINS database (with the 16th character) How do services register themselves in Active Directory.

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by techdictator Jul 24, 2001

Windows 2000 uses what they call Dynamic DNS. Which is basically WINS and DNS merged. Here is an article about it and how to enable it. (Q246804)
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q246/8/04.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=service%20registration&rnk=17&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WIN2000

Here is another article that describes WINS client registrations, it applies to 4.0 and 2000. (Q119495)
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q119/4/95.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=service%20registration&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WIN2000

And yet another article that describes Windows 2000 registrations made by DCs (Q178169)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q178/1/69.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=service%20registration&rnk=6&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WIN2000

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