The OpenAFS for Windows version of "fs newcell" prior to 1.5.74 behaved quite differently than its UNIX counterpart. Instead of adding cell server information for a new cell, the command simply caused the cache manager to destroy all of its cell server information and then reload it the next time the server list for a cell is needed. The UNIX version explicitly replaces the server list for a cell with a new list.
Beginning with the 1.5.75 release, the Windows version will continue to behave as prior versions did when no parameters are specified but will accept an extended UNIX command-line syntax as well. In addition to the UNIX parameters, the Windows "fs newcell" command accepts four new ones:
[-fsport <cell's fileserver port>]
Specifies an alternate port number at which the cell's file servers are listening
[-vlport <cell's vldb server port>]
Specifies an alternate port number at which the cell's volume location database servers are listening
[-registry]
Instructs the cache manager to save the cell server information to the registry database
[-dns]
Indicates that the cell server information should be obtained via DNS SRV or DNS AFSDB records