>Lately one of our Exchange 2003 bridgeheads has been having latencies in LDAP
>queries.  I know which global catalog server it is going to but I also saw
>where they state that Exchange will try to find a PDC also.  In a native AD
>and native 2003 exchange environemnt does Exchange actually still try to find
>a PDC emulator?  Second question.  MS has said that it has not approved using
>Exchange without a WINS server as apparently even in Exchange 2003 it does
>netbios lookups and uses WINS instead of DNS.  Seems dumb that DNS is
>supposed to be the root of and AD domain and that Exchange would still trying
>to use WINS.  Is this true or can WINS be removed in a native AD and Exchange
>environment?  I ask as this was also considered as one of the causes for
>these LDAP delays as we had disabled WINS.
>
>Thanks for your help!!