Heya folks, Ned here again. I have a pretty big announcement: we've started the final phase of disabling SMB1 in Windows.
Update: this change shipped in the February 2023 release and is part of...
Updated Jul 02, 2024
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JamesKehr
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MicrosoftHi Neil_H110 , NedPyle is the person in charge of SMB at Microsoft. Do you have a link to where MS says SMB1 is gone?
SMB1 is deprecated and no longer installed by default on new editions of Windows 11, but you can still install it within the OS. Click the Windows/Start button, or use Search in the task bar, and type in "windows features". Select "Turn Windows features on or off" from the results.
Scroll down until you see "SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support". Check the box, click OK, reboot when prompted. I confirmed that the feature is still there on Windows 11 22H2 when typing these steps, which is the newest version of Windows 11.
These steps willwork on any regular Win11 install through 22H2. Ned will announce when SMB1 is removed from the regular Windows images. He normally does this via a Tech Communities post and in official Microsoft documentation.
The exception to this rule is within Azure. The Azure team removes SMB1 from their marketplace images for security purposes. In Azure you cannot install SMB1 in Windows in a supportable manner.