What’s new in SMB in Windows Server 2012 R2 See also Applies To: Windows Server 2012 R2 This topic introduces the new features and functionality for Server Message Block (SMB) in Windows Server 2012 R2. Server
What is CIFS?Other SMB DialectsCIFS vs. SMB: What’s the Difference?Should I Use CIFS or SMB?Other File-Sharing Protocols & SMB Implementations CIFS (Common Internet File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) are both Windows file-sharing protocols used in storage systems, such as network-...
This article describes some of the newest developments in Windows Server 2025, which boasts advanced features that improve security, performance, and flexibility. With faster storage options and the ability to integrate with hybrid cloud environments, managing your infrastructure is now more streamlined....
SMB 1.0/CIFS Server Telnet Client TFTP Client Virtual Machine Platform Windows Hypervisor Platform Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 Windows PowerShell 2.0 Windows PowerShell 2.0 Engine Windows Process Activation Service .NET Environment Configuration APIs Process Model Windows Projected File System Windows Sub...
As noted earlier, DAS is typically used for storing system startup data and applications. Additional use cases can include the following: Remote office, branch office (ROBO) deployments.As noted before, in addition to SMB applications, DAS makes fiscal sense forROBOdeployments, or for departmental...
SMB Direct and RDMA supply high bandwidth, low latency networking fabric for workloads like Storage Spaces Direct, Storage Replica, Hyper-V, Scale-out File Server, and SQL Server. SMB Direct in Windows Server 2022 now supports encryption. Previously, enabling SMB encryption disabled direct data pla...
8 and Windows Server 2012. It added several significant upgrades to improve availability, performance, backup, security and management. Noteworthy new features included SMB Multichannel, SMB Direct, Transparent Failover of client access, Remote Volume Shadow Copy Service support, SMB Encryption and more...
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In 1996, Microsoft launched an initiative to rename SMB to Common Internet File System (CIFS) and added more features, including support for symbolic links, hard links, larger file sizes, and an initial attempt to support direct connections over TCP port 445 without requiring NetBIOS as a trans...
What is Windows Side-by-Side (WinSxS)? WinSxS is a crucial component in Windows operating systems. It's a folder that stores multiple versions of system files, allowing different applications to use the version they're compatible with. This helps avoid conflicts and ensures smooth operation. ...