Can WINS be disabled in Group Policy?

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I am administering a domain with over 100 computers. Previously, someone
set them up with static addresses in the WINS tab. Who know why this was
done, but I want it gone now. Instead of touching every computer myself,
can I disable this in group policy, and just refresh it? This is causing a
lot of problems. Thanks in advance.

-Jared

 

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"Jared Bassett" <jbassett@skroospammre.net> wrote in message
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>I am administering a domain with over 100 computers. Previously, someone
> set them up with static addresses in the WINS tab. Who know why this was
> done, but I want it gone now. Instead of touching every computer myself,
> can I disable this in group policy, and just refresh it? This is causing
> a
> lot of problems. Thanks in advance.
>
> -Jared
>
>
While there's no explicit setting to add/remove a WINS server address in
group policy, you could use the NETSH command within a script and delploy
that via policy to remove the WINS address on the client.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/netsh_int_ip.mspx

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