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How Windows 11 Is Quietly Retiring Enterprise SMB1
Episode 61 of The Windows Podcast with Fexingo digs into Microsoft's ongoing but under-the-radar campaign to kill SMB1 in enterprise environments. Lucas and Luna explain why SMB1 — the nearly 40-year-old network file-sharing protocol — is still lurking in thousands of corporate networks, often enabled by legacy printers, medical devices, or old NAS appliances. They break down the security cost: SMB1 was the vector for WannaCry and NotPetya, and Microsoft has been trying to kill it since Windows 10. Now Windows 11 is making SMB1 opt-in only during installation, with no fallback. But the real…
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