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I disagree
Since SMB2 doesn't add any real functionality to Windows that SMB hasn't given it for years, why not just leave SMB2 off?This is inaccurate. SMB is a chatty 20 year old protocol. SMB2 has significant performance gains.
While this has little effect in most organization's diverse networks, in a 2008/Vista/Win7 infrastructure there could be very noticeable differences for end-users, particularly those using VPN or other slow-links.