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by cong

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My wins server has 3 entries and 2 of them are junks. I'm thinking about delete them all and redo them again. should I worry about anthing beside backup the wins database. I have pdc,bdc on nt 4.0 sp6a

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by jose_12650

Junk entries are self-terminating. At a default value of 10 minutes these junks should be removed from your WINS if you check on Automatic update of statistics. But you can force it by clicking on Scavenge Database. If you have determined these entries to be junk, I do not see any reason why you cannot delete them.

by jose_12650

By the way, if you decide to delete these junk entries, be sure to replicate the deletion to other WINS servers (tombstone).

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