Really, really misleading fixlet titles

Usage and Config Patch
1

So there’s a fixlet:

2696547: Manage SMBv1 in Windows and Windows Server - Disable Workaround (Remove SMB v1 completely) - Windows 8.1 / Windows 10 / Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows Server 2016

The problem with that title, is that the fixlet doesn’t do that at all. In fact, it does the exact opposite. From the description:

This fixlet will install SMBv1 on Windows and Windows Servers, providing the method for customers who have removed SMBv1 to restore the SMBv1 service.

I have tried to figure out how to justify this title, but i can’t. I’ve gotten used to Fixlets regularly having somewhat obtuse titles, but this one is just blatantly misleading. It’s already caused me no small amount of unnecessary work.

Please, please, make sure the title agrees with what the fixlet actually does.

cc @jgstew

3 Likes
2

Just posting a +1 to this. I realize that upstream vendors don’t make it easy, but sometimes the fixlet naming is overly obtuse.

1 Like
3

It seems like this title is just wrong, if it says (Remove SMB v1 completely) and it actually Enables SMBv1.

I think something like this is much more clear: SMB: Enable SMBv1 and Disable Workaround - Windows 8.1 / Windows 10 / Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows Server 2016

The Enable SMBv1 and Disable Workaround part needs emphasized above almost all else since it is what it actually does, while it is useful to have something like SMB: at the front of all the fixlets that do similar things so they are grouped together in the console, but Manage SMBv1 in Windows and Windows Server is way too long and over emphasizes the windowsyness of the fixlet.

2 Likes