KB2775511 has substantially reduced the CPU load and improved file-sharing performance on one of our heavily-used Windows 2008 R2 file servers.

Microsoft recommends that it be applied to both servers and workstations.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/12/slow-boot-slow-login-sbsl-hotfix-rollup-for-windows-7-and-server-2008-r2-available-today.aspx

But there may be problems with it under some circumstances:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/winsdk/archive/2013/05/13/roll-up-update-kb-2775511-reports-with-smb-2-0-data-truncation.aspx

If they really want people to 'upgrade' from XP, shouldn't they make an in-place upgrade possible?

So the question we each need to ask, on behalf of ourselves and our employers, is how long will it take to transition my/our setup to IPV6?

If the answer is greater than 2 years, it would be prudent to start doing something about it now.

There's FirefoxADM: http://ick2.wordpress.com/

This stuff really needs to be in the core of Firefox for it to gain corporate users.

And good riddance to them too. Thanks for encouraging us all

about:config

network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

Yup, firefox supports NTLM authentication, and has for a long time, and it works for me.

You can.... X-UA-Compatible. 10 mins on Microsoft's IE blog would have told you that....