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Karl-WE's avatar
Apr 23, 2022

Feature Request: NetBIOS and WINS deprecation / removal

It is 2022. While having a good course to remove SMB 1 in Windows Server and Windows Client we still have the following things enabled by default, which are not enhancing security and performance.

 

Please consider the following related changes:

- Introduce an ADMX Template to disable LMhosts, to raise security

- Introduce an ADMX Template to disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP for Network interfaces to raise security.

 

- try to remove WINS from Windows Server feature and support of NetBIOS altogether as you gradually did with SMB1.

- try to remove dependencies (also in PowerShell) that somehow rely on using NT4 authentication format (domainname\username) instead of UPN (username@domainname.tld)

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