The WINS resolution information was not updated. The record format is corrupt.
- Chris Keim
- Jun 27, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 21
Recently, I was cleaning up DNS in an Active Directory domain and came across an old WINS entry. Decided it wasn't needed anymore and was just a legacy setting from many domain controllers ago. I attempted to remove the setting and received the error:
"The WINS resolution information was not updated. The record format is corrupt."
Applicable Products
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019
Solution
Open PowerShell on the domain controller as an administrator and run the following command, replacing <company.com> with your DNS zone:
This helped me in 2026
This really helped me in my situation. Thank you.
This amazingly came up and helped me in 2025. One note; the command on your page is missing the hyphen before the switch RRType. It should be; Remove-DNSServerResourceRecord -ZoneName <company.com> -Force -RRtype "WINS" -Name "@"