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When to enable the SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1 protocols

There are several file-transferring and interprocess communication enhancements that make the SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1 protocols a more suitable choice to use in certain scenarios instead of the original SMB 1.0 protocol.

According to the SMB 2.0 protocol specification, such scenarios might include those that have the following requirements:

In addition to the enhancements present in SMB 2.0, SMB 2.1 provides these additional enhancements:

For more information, see the SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1 protocol specifications.