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Long live TechEd! Microsoft has just announced that it is replacing the TechED conference with a new “Microsoft unified technology event for enterprises.”
Our two-part series on SMB 3.0 and SMB Multichannel concludes with a discussion of smart SMB design, SMB Multichannel constraints, and SMB bandwidth limits.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced this morning than the company would layoff up to 18,000 employees within the next year.
Last Update: Feb 20, 2023
In part one of this article series, Aidan Finn shows how to design and manage SMB Multichannel in SMB 3.0, which is a data protocol that is available in Windows Server 2012 R2.