Windows 11 will let admins mandate SMB client encryption for all outbound connections, starting with today's Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25982 rolling out to Insiders in the Canary Channel. SMB ...

Microsoft announced that the Windows 11 SMB server is now better protected against brute-force attacks with the release of the Insider Preview Build 25206 to the Dev Channel. Redmond has enabled the ...

Microsoft is making major changes to how SMB compression operates in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. The enhancements will particularly interest IT admins and users in client-server environments.

Microsoft has released the newest Windows 11 Build 25381 to the Canary channel insiders today. As usual, the new build brings some new features and improvements, though there are no bug fixes.

For sharing large files at home, I look no further than using the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol on my machines. I was okay with transferring GBs worth of several ISOs of operating systems, ...

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Last week, Microsoft released previews of updates for various versions of Windows before it unleashes the final versions next Patch Tuesday. Included among these was the KB5016691 update for Windows ...

Usama is a news reporter at XDA who has a decade of experience in covering technology news across a variety of topics, with the primary area of focus being anything related to Microsoft. He also has a ...

With the release of the latest Canary build of Windows 11, Microsoft has introduced welcome new security options. The first gives administrators the option of requiring encryption of all outbound SMB ...

Microsoft has introduced a new default to shield Windows 11 machines against password attacks which ought to make them "a very unattractive target" for hackers trying to steal credentials. The latest ...

Windows 11, version 22H2 came with an unexpected and unwanted surprise, decreased performance when copying large files from a remote machine or server. For those that updated Windows, SMB copying ...