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Dec 15, 2023
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ISSUE - WON'T FIX - Failover Cluster Manager via RDP

Dear Windows Server insider Team, I would like to raise awareness about a long standing issue, I hope you can address in Windows Server vNext.  Problem: The context menus (right click) in Failov...
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    MSBernstein
    Mar 22, 2024
    After all of Karl's help, I am disappointed to say that we will not be fixing this bug.

    The feature team investigated and shared some notes with me:
    * The issue is related to screen scaling factors > 100%. This can happen both locally and with RD.
    * The issue is related to various custom control implementations that were made in the WS2012R2 timeframe.
    * The team is prioritizing work on cluster management functionality itself, rather than the user interface, particularly since the bug has been there for roughly ten years.

    The Windows Admin Center team plans to continue investing in extensions and tools; our goal is to super-set the Win32 management UI eventually. So, I hope to turn FCM into modern, web UI rather than Win32 custom controls.

    Thanks,
    Michael

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Karl-WE
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Jan 07, 2024

Repro:
via an RDP Session launch FCM mmc and open context menus, e.g. Roles then navigate through the options with mouse or cursor keys. only the highlighted will be visible other disappear.
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MSBernstein
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Feb 27, 2024
Hi, Karl. My contact in the Failover Cluster Mgmt team wanted to know the exact resolution of your display and if you had high DPI enabled on either the host or the guest side. We're having some trouble reproducing the issue on our side - thanks!

Michael Bernstein
Windows Server Engineering

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