Apple seldom gives advanced notice of significant changes coming in the next major version of macOS, before its first beta-release at WWDC. One significant exception to this are changes to networking that could impact enterprise users. This year, with just over six weeks to go before that first beta of macOS 27, we already have two warnings of what might be coming. AFP and network storage Apple made SMB its primary file-sharing protocol in OS X 10.9 Mavericks, over 12 years ago, and has repeatedly told us that support for its predecessor AFP will be removed in the future. It repeated those warnings with macOS Sequoia 15.5, but still hasn’t confirmed when AFP will be lost. Those who are most likely to be affected by this are still using Time Capsules, or elderly NAS systems that don’t support SMB3. As removal of AFP support won’t be retrospective, provided that none of your Macs will be upgraded to macOS 27, you’ll still be able to use AFP for your file shares and Time Machine backups.…