A bunch of new stuff in SMB 3.0
- SMB for Server Applications
- Active file sharing with SMB Scale Out
- Scalable, fast, and efficient storage access with SMB Direct
- Fast data transfers and network fault tolerance with SMB Multichannel
- Transparent Failover and node fault tolerance with SMB
- VSS for SMB file shares
- Secure data transfer with SMB encryption
- Faster access to documents over high latency networks with SMB Directory Leasing
- SMB Ecosystem
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Categories: Windows Server 2012