Disabling SMB1 network share protocol to improve security

Modified on Mon, 27 Apr at 2:18 AM

SMBv1 has been reported to have significant security vulnerabilities and has been suggested to disable it in preference for SMBv2/v3.

It should be ok to disable SMB1 protocol on Synergetic servers for the network shares as long as the workstations that are connecting to them have also been updated to use a newer SMB protocol. Microsoft has a great how-to document which provides some simple PowerShell commands to detect / disable / enable the SMB protocols.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/troubleshoot/detect-enable-and-disable-smbv1-v2-v3

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