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Ned Pyle on 11-11-2020 01:29 PM

"Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component" workaround coming

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Ned Pyle on 10-20-2020 11:52 AM

New SMS features and fixes for the October cumulative optional update

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Ned Pyle on 09-16-2020 10:12 AM

NFS 4.1 is now available as an Azure Files service.

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Ned Pyle on 06-29-2020 10:07 AM

Defending SMB clients from interception attacks.

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Ned Pyle on 06-17-2020 10:55 AM

Increase your security by controlling SMB traffic's ingress, egress, and lateral movement

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Ned Pyle on 03-02-2020 11:17 AM

Learn about SMB3 over QUIC - instead of TCP or RDMA - for hybrid and mobile computing.

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JamesKehr on 02-26-2020 09:22 AM

An update on some expected SMB1 behaviors in modern Windows even after you uninstalled SMB1, and why you should still no...

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JamesKehr on 02-21-2020 09:58 AM

Null sessions are bad, and Windows doesn't like them. Learn more about this aspect of SMB security and why you probably ...

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Ned Pyle on 12-03-2019 02:27 PM

Brief survey for SMB= ("CIFS") customers using NetApp FAS devices for file services.

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Ned Pyle on 11-18-2019 03:19 PM

SMS error "Couldn't transfer storage on any of the endpoints. 0x9044" fixed in KB4520062.

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Ned Pyle on 09-20-2019 04:37 PM

How to control SMB write-through and data consistency in Windows 10 and Windows Server.

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Ned Pyle on 09-17-2019 04:14 PM

Understanding SMB2+ dialects and controlling them in later versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server

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Ned Pyle on 09-12-2019 06:53 PM

New version of Get-SMSLogs published for Storage Replica Troubleshooting

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Ned Pyle on 08-23-2019 11:34 AM

Windows Server 2019 Storage Migration Service updated to support migrating failover clusters, Samba on Linux , local use...

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Ned Pyle on 07-19-2019 03:01 PM

New SMS WAC extension 1.57.0 released!

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Arpita Duppala on 06-20-2019 12:34 PM

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Ned Pyle on 06-14-2019 04:07 PM

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Arpita Duppala on 04-10-2019 07:53 AM

First published on TECHNET on Mar 07, 2019 This post was authored by @Arpita Duppala, PM on the High Availability and St...

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FileCAB-Team on 04-10-2019 07:53 AM

First published on TECHNET on Jan 07, 2019 Reserving disk space to keep Windows 10 up to dateWindows Insiders: To enable...

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Ned Pyle on 04-10-2019 07:53 AM

First published on TECHNET on Dec 13, 2018 Heya folks, Ned here again.

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Ned Pyle on 04-10-2019 07:52 AM

First published on TECHNET on Nov 07, 2018 Heya folks, Ned here again.

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Cosmos Darwin on 04-10-2019 07:52 AM

First published on TECHNET on Oct 30, 2018 Written by Cosmos Darwin, Senior PM on the Core OS team at Microsoft.

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Garrett Watumull on 04-10-2019 07:51 AM

First published on TECHNET on Oct 03, 2018 This post was authored by Garrett Watumull, PM on the Windows Server team at ...

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Cosmos Darwin on 04-10-2019 07:50 AM

First published on TECHNET on Oct 02, 2018 This post was written by Cosmos Darwin, Sr PM on the Core OS team at Microsof...

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Arpita Duppala on 04-10-2019 07:50 AM

First published on TECHNET on Sep 24, 2018 Azure Blob Storage on IoT Edge Version 1.

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FileCAB-Team on 04-10-2019 07:49 AM

First published on TECHNET on Aug 30, 2018 What’s new in Storage Sense?Starting with Windows 10, Storage Sense has embar...

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Garrett Watumull on 04-10-2019 07:48 AM

First published on TECHNET on Jul 24, 2018 This post was authored by Garrett Watumull, PM on the Windows Server team at ...

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Ned Pyle on 04-10-2019 07:48 AM

First published on TECHNET on Jul 12, 2018 Go here for current GA version of Storage Migration Service: http://aka.

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FileCAB-Team on 04-10-2019 07:48 AM

First published on TECHNET on Jul 09, 2018 Hello, IT Admins!As a part of our planning process for the next release of Wi...

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Cosmos Darwin on 04-10-2019 07:48 AM

First published on TECHNET on Jun 27, 2018 This post was authored by Cosmos Darwin, PM on the Windows Server team at Mic...

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in Azure Files NFS now in preview on 01-15-2021

Hi @Ned Pyle Will this be coming to Azure Container Instances any time soon? The lack of symlink support in the current SMB Azure Files for ACI really stinks.

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in Don't do it: consumer-grade solid-state drives (SSD) in Storage Spaces Direct on 01-13-2021

I just built a lab with Supermicro servers and 4 Intel D3-S4510 in each node, connected to the SATA Ports, I use the Intel RST driver. Before enabling S2D, the disks are stated as power protected and cache was enabled, too. After enabling S2d, write cache is disabled for all Intel drives in the pool...

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in Stop using SMB1 on 01-09-2021

If you have many shared folders on one server, why not just map the server as a network drive? Sounds a lot simpler and useful to have one mapped drive with all your folders than to browse a network directory.

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in Stop using SMB1 on 01-05-2021

@Ned Pyle I've done all the hard work and SMB1 is dead to me. Now I want to kill off SMB2 and force SMB3 with the goal of blocking man-in-the-middle attacks (stupid auditors and their poisoned ARP tables). Is there a way I can force my Windows 10 clients to only use SMB3 and not give up hashed creds...

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in Stop using SMB1 on 12-24-2020

I doubt anyone disagrees that the sooner SMB1 is gone, the better. However, rather than ridiculing people who continue to use it, take a minute to stop and think who created it in the first place and why. I'm talking about you, Microsoft. The use case for homes and small businesses is obvious. Many ...

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