Microsoft apparently canning P2P Win32 services on Windows 11 23H2, Windows 12

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https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-apparently-canning-p2p-win32-services-on-windows-11-23h2-windows-12/

..It looks like Microsoft has removed several DLL files related to peer networking such as those for distributed routing and peer-to-peer services from the build’s System32 folder. Xeno notes exactly a dozen such files were removed which has consequently led to three such services being eliminated as a result. They write:

Quite a few dlls removed from 25951’s System32

drt.dll (Distributed Routing Table)
drtprov.dll (Distributed Routing Table Providers)
drttransport.dll (Distributed Routing Table Transport Providers)
Groupinghc.dll (Grouping Helper Class)
P2P.dll (Peer-to-Peer Grouping)
P2PGraph.dll (Peer-to-Peer Graphing)
p2pnetsh.dll (Peer-to-Peer NetSh Helper)
p2psvc.dll (Peer-to-Peer Services)
pnrpauto.dll (PNRP Auto Service Dll)
Pnrphc.dll (PNRP Helper Class)
pnrpnsp.dll (PNRP Name Space Provider)
pnrpsvc.dll (PNRP Service Dll)

As a result, the following services have also been removed:

Peer Name Resolution Protocol
Peer Networking Grouping
Peer Networking Identity Manager

Microsoft may feel such features are not as important in the upcoming Windows 11 23H2 update, and if that happens then the next major Windows release, generally referred to as Windows 12, will also lack these P2P features…

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Good bye small businesses. Still have a year or so but this is not good news.

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I have a peer to peer network here and those services aren’t running.  They are all manual.

They are “peer name resolution over the Internet”, not in a SMB (server message block) or SMB (small to medium business)

Peer networking grouping – may break HomeGroup.

Hello – HomeGroup got deprecated already and quite frankly never worked.

HomeGroup removed from Windows 10 (Version 1803) – Microsoft Support

This won’t impact like you think.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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speaking of Windows 11 23H2, I recently saw the following:

https://www.deskmodder.de/blog/2023/09/21/windows-11-23h2-erscheint-offiziell-am-26-september-2023/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/copilot-in-windows-and-new-cloud-pc-experiences-coming-to/ba-p/3933653

On September 26th, Copilot in Windows will start to roll out in September 2023 optional non-security update for Windows 11, version 22H2–and will be available behind the commercial control for continuous innovation. It will later be included in Windows 11, version 23H2, the annual feature update for Window 11, which will be released in Q4 of this calendar year. With the feature update, Copilot in Windows will be on by default, but under your control with Microsoft Intune policy or Group Policy.

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