Mapped network printers unavailable due to SMB1 being obsolete

INTRODUCTION

As we all might be familiar with, printers are one of those little peculiar matters within IT. Implementing these in an IT-environment is self-explanatory oftentimes, but when they do not cooperate the issue itself can stem from one single obscure root cause, if not a string of these having to be checked upon.
Recently, I encountered a particular printer issue which I found interesting enough to share. The root cause here, in summary, was due to the network protocol SMBv1 (Server Message Block) being obsolete in recent Windows releases.

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