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mbuette
Copper Contributor
Aug 04, 2021

Is this the right place for Feedback?

I was told over on the Q&A site that "Your feedback will go directly to Microsoft engineers and helps to shape the future of Microsoft products and services." if I post here, so if that's true:

I understand that PowerShell is becoming more important. Since I also use Unix, I get that some things only work through the shell (SET, IPv6 RAs etc.). But with 2019 I've recently come across some things which are supposed to work through the GUI but don't.

I retrain people for IT jobs who my have been a cook or accountant, hell I even had a gravedigger once. And they get confused when things don't work like expected and I have to tell them "I'll do overtime and get back to you tomorrow, or the day after that, or later, depending on how badly MS F'd things up this time".

So, if things are not supposed to work through the GUI, just through PowerShell, why not just remove the options from the GUI? Would make my live so much easier!

Especially since 2019 is not really spanking new anymore and I've reproduced at least one of those issues (Conditional forwarding for IP6.ARPA zones in DNS) on 2022 IP as well.

  • mbuette Hello! Can you please link to where you were told that on Q&A? 

     

    You've posted your question in the Tech Community Discussion space, which is intended for discussion around the Tech Community website itself, not product questions. I'm moving your question to the PowerShell space- please post PowerShell questions here in the future. 

    • mbuette's avatar
      mbuette
      Copper Contributor
      Well, I was just about finished with this thread, but was still curious about Tech Community vs. Q&A so I stumbled about this thread (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/tech-community-discussion/microsoft-technical-community-vs-microsoft-q-amp-a/m-p/2357165) with the "best response confirmed by Eric Starker" stating that MCT's purpose among others, is, I quote "provide feedback to product groups". The posting is older, but please, figure it out. Life as a Windows trainer is hard enough without you taking away Technet and replacing it with confusing and overlapping alternatives....
      • EricStarker's avatar
        EricStarker
        Former Employee
        Allen is not wrong. The products with a feedback space (meaning a UserVoice-like experience where you can submit and upvote ideas) in Tech Community are:
        Microsoft Stream
        Azure Virtual Desktop
        Cortana
        Microsoft Launcher
        Windows 365
        Microsoft 365 Developer Platform
        Microsoft Bookings
        Microsoft Localization
        Microsoft Search
        MSIX
        Universal Print

        Each product group decides how they want to receive feedback and ideas. Apologies if Allen's comment is misleading but I'm sure that was not his intent. Our community management team does not make the decisions on where feedback lands for each product so I'm sorry we can't eliminate this confusion for you.
    • mbuette's avatar
      mbuette
      Copper Contributor

      EricStarkerHere's the Link, 2nd comment to OP. Also, it's not really a PS question, more a GUI question where things don't work and don't get fixed (Storage Pools, Language Packs etc.).

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