Hi all, last Wednesday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25992 to the Canary Channel. Close to smooth upgrades here, One device did not continue past 37% installing in the 1st phase, a simple pause updates & resume fixed it. SMB is getting more secure, might break some stuff but fixing a more secure communication is …
Tag: smb
Oct 22
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25977 (Canary Channel)
Hi all, last Wednesday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25977 to the Canary Channel. There are ISOs availabe for this build – they can be > downloaded here < All Devcies upgraded without issues here, quite some updates in this build What’s new in Build 25977 Improving accessibility with Bluetooth® LE Audio We’re excited to announce …
Sep 16
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25951 (Canary Channel)
Hi all, last Wednesday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25951 to the Canary Channel. There are ISOs for this build – they can be downloaded >here< More security updates on this build, SMB legacy authentication protocols are beeing disabled by default. An update to snipping tool was also released, text redaction tool built in: New …
Jul 15
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905
Hi all, last Wednesday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25905 to the Canary Channel. ISOs are also released for this build – they can be downloaded >here<. Starting with this build, Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel will notice that the name of the branch shown in the desktop watermark has changed back to RS_PRERELEASE. As …
Sep 24
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25206
Hi all, last Wednesday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25206 to the Dev Channel. Upgrades are going smooth here, however you don’t want to do a reset of your Windows on the current Dev builds (unless you know a new build is getting released soon). Together with @aavdberg we’ve been testing resetting devices on …
Jul 31
Best Practice Analyser – ‘Warning’ Short file name creation should be disabled – Configuration
Disabling Short filename Creation frees up performance for other file server tasks This will stop NTFSfrom generating the 8 char filename alias for all files (only required for very old software) Example: Query the current state for the setting: To disable the function, change the following registry value & reboot the system HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation Set …