{"id":1073,"date":"2012-04-19T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2012\/04\/19\/smb-2-2-is-now-smb-3-0\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:28:05","slug":"smb-2-2-is-now-smb-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/smb-2-2-is-now-smb-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"SMB 2.2 is now SMB 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are at an exciting stage of the release.\u00a0 Beta has been out for some time now and we\u2019ve gotten lots of great feedback.\u00a0 As we progress towards releasing the next version of Windows, many of the details are getting decided and communicated.\u00a0 This has been a big week for naming.\u00a0 On Monday, Brandon LeBlanc announced the official product names for editions<\/a> of Windows on the Windows Team blog.\u00a0 During that day\u2019s MMS keynote, Brad Anderson announced the official name for Server:\u00a0 Windows Server 2012.\u00a0 In today\u2019s blog the SMB team announces their official name: SMB 3.0.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think this will come as much of a surprise to anyone.\u00a0 The team has delivered an amazing amount of innovation in this release.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t already downloaded the beta, I think you\u2019ll want to after reading some of the details in this blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last September at the \/\/Build Conference, we announced SMB 2.2, an update to our Server Message Block protocol used by default for file sharing in Windows. Since then we have actively engaged with the community through various channels and have spoken in detail about all the great work that has gone into the release and why we think this is truly a game changer. Windows Server 2012 provides a vast set of new SMB features with an updated SMB protocol that greatly enhance the reliability, availability, manageability, and performance of file servers.<\/p>\n

Looking back at the amount of changes that have gone into this release \u2013 the lines of code written, array of features introduced, new scenarios we have enabled, work we have done with our partners, a minor revision doesn\u2019t do justice the work that has gone in. So moving on, SMB 2.2 is SMB 3.0!<\/p>\n

Regular followers of this blog have seen detailed posts on various SMB improvements over the last few months. To summarize, the following are some of the key new functionalities available with Windows Server 2012 SMB 3.0:<\/p>\n