With Microsoft announcing plans to eventually disable the SMB1 protocol across all of its operating system versions, sharing files on Windows 11 will soon be more secure.
For those unfamiliar, the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol was originally developed by IBM in the 1980s to make it easier to share access to files, printers, and other resources on a network. Meanwhile, SMB1 is a dialect of the protocol IBM created for sharing files in DOS.
In a new blog post, Ned Pyle, Principal Program Manager for the Windows Server Engineering Group, explained that Windows Insiders on the Dev Channel will be the first to see SMB1 disabled by default on all Windows 11 releases.
This makes sense since Microsoft has released Windows 10 and Windows Server without SMB1 installed since the Fall 2017 Creators Update. Now, however, this will extend to all versions of Windows 11, which will no longer have insecure file sharing protocols enabled.
Still available as an unsupported package
Although SMB1 is an insecure protocol, it is still used today to connect older NAS devices on Windows PCs. While the protocol will no longer be enabled by default after Windows 11, the change will not affect in-place upgrades of end-user machines already using SMB1. Microsoft also plans to remove the SMB1 binaries in a future release.
For businesses that still need to use SMB1 to connect legacy equipment such as factory machinery and medical equipment, the software giant will offer installation packages that are not supported out-of-band.
In his post, Nyle warned that Microsoft’s plans for SMB1 could create pain points for consumers still running older hardware, who might wonder why new business laptops running Windows 11 can’t connect to aging network hard drives Confused.
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