Just days before its antitrust remedy trial begins in Washington, <B>Microsoft</B> plans to open up more protocols including its Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing protocol.

If you're using any kind of server system you will likely stumble across a protocol called SMB. Here is everything you need to know about it.

Server Message Block 2.1. Analysis. Jan 17, 2010 2 mins. ... Windows 7, and Server 2008. This protocol update can make communications more efficient between Longhorn operating systems.

Microsoft is appealing to organizations to stop using Server Message Block (SMB) version 1. The SMB protocol works with server and client operating systems, enabling actions such as file sharing ...

Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 build 25992 for Insiders in the Canary Channel. It includes a number of Server Message Block (SMB) protocol changes, a Snipping Tool update, and more.

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 ...

reader comments 15. Redmond is investigating reports that a newly discovered flaw in Microsoft's implementation of the Server Message Block 2 (SMB2) protocol, an extension of the conventional ...

Microsoft wants to kill the use of Server Message Block (SMB) version 1 by pleading to customers to stop using it. The SMB protocol works with server and client operating systems, enabling actions ...

When you use "smb" (for Server Message Block) as the protocol, the system will preferentially use SMB2 and only resort to SMB1 if the device does not support SMB2; however, you can force the use ...

But if you still need it, you can get it. Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system already disables by default SMB (Server Message Block) version 1, the 30-year-old file-sharing protocol.

A new security vulnerability involving the Server Message Block protocol, used for Windows file-sharing, can allow a remote attacker to take control of a vulnerable Vista, Server 2008 or Windows 7 ...

Although this month's two-patch security bundle is small, the patches repaired critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft's XML Core Services and Server Message Block Protocol, which affect several ...