Microsoft announced its latest efforts to phase out the old and outdated SMB1 standard in various Windows versions. Now all Windows 11 Home preview builds ship with SMB1 off by default.
SMB1, also known as Server Message Block, is a standard developed in the late 1980s for providing shared access to files and printers in a network. Like everything else PC and network-related from 30+ years ago, SMB1 is an extremely outdated standard Microsoft stopped supporting long ago. In the latest effort to phase out SMB1, Microsoft announced that it no longer installs SMB1 by default in any Windows variant, now including Windows 11 Home preview builds from the Dev channel.
