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Hello Prasidh. I'm relieved to hear you and WAC are alive and well after these many, many months. I will call off the search party.
I've posted the issues that I have noticed so far on github.
Out here in the real world using WAC as a GUI to manage Windows Core rather than just install the desktop experience can be a tough sell to management and colleagues, especially when most IT people are not familiar with it so they don't know its an option and if they know, they may not have reason to have faith in it. That's Microsofts fault BTW. You can do a week of WAC rah-rah-rah at Ignite but if you don't promote these things consistently, no one knows about them and they silently go away in everyone's mind. (Thanks again to Microsoft for killing my Windows Phone through their own neglect)
If you can't provide the same functionality in WAC as you do in the Windows GUI that has been there since Windows NT 3.X, you will naturally find resistance in adopting WAC. The issues that I reported on github are not insignificant and the workarounds are just goofy - no one has time for all of this nonsense. People just want products that just work - not products we have to work on. If another person suggests that I "write some PowerShell" for something that Microsoft could/should easily make available in a GUI, I'm going to throw up. The year is 2022 BTW, not 1992 so you would think that server management would be pretty flawless by this point, but that's sadly not the case.
In terms of an interface, WAC is OK but a web browser based interface will never be as good as a well written mmc or similar. I understand that a browser interface can be accessed from anywhere, but so what. Its still slow and sloppy compared to mmc. Its the same general interface you might use to check your facebook page or browse youtube videos or even use a website such as this one where you might try and elicit some sort of response from MS reps that claim they care about their products but apparently do not really care because they ignore all communication from the few people that are actually trying to help them make the product better. The web browser interface is a jack-of-all-trades and master of none, but its what you have chosen and I suspect its because its better for you and not necessarily us.
