Windows Internet Name Service, an old way of resolving NetBIOS names to IP addresses. It is deprecated and should be replaced by DNS.
Also called Windows Internet Name Service.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains WINS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- DNS
The system that turns names into addresses. In Azure, private endpoints depend on private DNS zones, which are queried through 168.63.129.16.
Related terms
- AS Path (hub routing preference)
Routing preference for a Virtual WAN hub under which the shortest BGP AS path wins regardless of where the route came from. When local routes tie, ExpressRoute is chosen over site-to-site VPN.
- Azure Information Protection
Service that classifies and protects documents in Office apps, applying a single label to each (if several match, the last one in the policy wins). Its classic client has been retired, with Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels taking over.
- Block access (Conditional Access)
When a Conditional Access policy with this grant applies, the sign-in is refused outright; because block wins over all other controls, meeting MFA or compliance requirements in a different policy cannot override it.
- Cloud update
Handles Microsoft 365 Apps updates for devices on Current or Monthly Enterprise from within the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center, with waves, exclusion windows, pausing and rollback. Where other update management also applies, it wins.
- Cumulative most restrictive
The way Azure Policy resolves several assignments at once. Each is assessed separately and the strictest result wins, so a single assignment that denies a request is enough to block it.
- Deny access to this computer from the network
Prevents listed accounts connecting over the network and wins over the equivalent allow right.
- Ingestion batching policy
A policy, set on a KQL database or on individual tables, that decides when queued ingestion closes off a batch: whichever comes first of a time, item-count or size limit (5 minutes, 500 items or 1 GB uncompressed by default). A policy on a table wins over one on its database.
- Multi-stage review
Splits an access review into up to three stages run in sequence, with separate reviewers and durations per stage. You choose which reviewees carry forward, and the final recorded decision wins.