The company, which said earlier this week that it would also license its Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, will license the SMB file-sharing protocol later this summer, Microsoft spokesman ...

Here are ZDNET's top picks for a variety of use cases. Read now Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system already disables by default SMB (Server Message Block) version 1, the 30-year-old file-sharing ...

Starting with this build (Build 25992), we are introducing the following Server Message Block (SMB) protocol changes. SMB firewall rule changes: Creating SMB shares changes a longtime Windows Defender ...

Server 2008 R2 defaults to a maximum 1-megabyte MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit), but the protocol specification permits even higher values. Microsoft estimates a 30% to 40% gain versus SMB 2.0 in file ...

Microsoft has released the latest Windows Server build for members of the Windows Server Insider Program. The new 26212 build adds Delegated Managed Service Accounts and more SMB protocol changes.

Early versions of Server Message Block are still present on many Windows networks and devices, leaving them open to attack. Here's how to detect and disable them. Server Message Block (SMB) is a ...

Systems administrators should get ready to fix a critical vulnerability on April 12 that affects the Windows and Samba implementations of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The vulnerability was ...

Server Message Block or SMB is a protocol used for file sharing. It provides the Read and Write operations on network devices. This is widely used while a user is accessing a Linux-based Server. The ...

One of the ways in which Server 2008’s new version of the Server Message Block protocol improves performance over the original version of SMB is through something called “opportunistic locking,” or ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The Server Message Block protocol, better known as SMB, is one of ...