BACKGROUND:
Our Wins is corrupt and we are going to start from scratch. We plan to stop all wins services, backup and delete %systemroot%\wins\*.* and restart. We have 200+ servers and Exchange running in a multiple master domain. Many servers are either at remote locations or should run 24/7. Instead of rebooting all servers to reregister with wins, We have a script the will start the schedule service remotely and run NBTSTAT -RR to reregister. TechNet Q228453 states NBTSTAT -RR does not increment the WINS ID and NTSP 6A fixes this.
However about 1/2 the servers are running NTSP5.
Question: If we wipe out the entire WINS database, is reregistering with the same WINS ID going to cause a problem?
My Take: It is my understanding that the ID is for consistency checking. Once deleted, nothing will be replicated to conflict. I don’t think this will hurt us, however we want to do this right the first time.
Advise/experiences extremely welcome.
