Windows Insider Server Message Block 3.0: Microsoft's New Storage Model By Greg Shields 05/02/2012 UPDATE: Since this article was published in our May 2012 issue, Microsoft has renamed SMB 2.2 to ...

The SMB protocol requests file and print services from a Windows client to a Windows server over a corporate network. The ability to license SMB--and the core CIFS in Windows NT 4.0 --will allow ...

As expected, it's a one-patch Tuesday, with a single item deemed "critical" in Microsoft's first security update for the year. The January update, described in Security Bulletin MS09-001, is said to ...

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 ...

The January update, described in Security Bulletin MS09-001, is said to resolve newly discovered, yet not publicly disclosed, vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Server Message Block Protocol.