Nice article, totally agree about SMB1. This I don’t agree with. “ Mapped resources are easier for them to locate, require less training, and are safer to use, especially when provided automatically through group policy.” 1. We have been trying to move users away from drive letters to UNCs, if windows had ability to map UNC as folder points of /mycomputer York guidance would be sound, it doesn’t. 2. Many server have many shares, in many organizations there literally isn’t enough drive letters, smaller orgs will not to DFS and even if they have just something like a NAS that often has 10+ shares, all those drive letters is not easier than clicking one browsable object If Microsoft thinks browsing computers with WS-discovery is not safe it should remove the ability to use it and move to mDNS ...
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