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- So excited for the inclusion of Windows Terminal
- Me too, still hope that PowerShell 7 can come into WS 2025 in-box as well. It would make much sense. There are Microsoft modules that won't do in PS 5.1 anymore. Many familiar commands have become more powerful, e.g. control of services, Networking. We could safely remove the deprecated ISE, which is still required when using PS 5.1 for Out-GridView. And in any case, we can switch back to PS 5.1 as PS 7 is no full replacements. Likely to PS 2.0 and 5.1 in the past. PS 7 updates can be controlled via WU, WSUS, ConfigMgr and certainly we could count on for Azure Update Manager in the future.
Yash_ShekarMicrosoft
Glad to hear that - let us know about your experience once WS2025 is GA!
Are they any plans to develop a GUI for Winget to reduce manual steps when packaging applications for Intune deployment? I don't like having to pay for a third-party application when Microsoft already has the knowledge to give users this functionality.
- Maybe check out this project: https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI (I didn't test on server, but looks promising on the client)
- Demitrius_NelonI think this is primarily a question around Intune providing a GUI based experience for managing software on client devices. I'll let someone from the Intune team chime in on that front. For "end users", Dev Home provides a GUI based experience leveraging WinGet for managing software on the desktop.
- BrentforI'll see if I can get a member of the Winget team to chime and get you the best answer. Thanks for the feedback!
- I really do appreciate your response; it would really enhance the Intune application deployment experience!
- I'm installing now VSCode on Windows Server 2025 Insider Preview Build 26080 with winget and running now a docker container with nanoserver insider preview. 🙂
- Ace 🙂
Seems Microsoft thinks that Windows 11 desktop features is what administrators want? I'm not so sure I want this... If I see already how Edge is not taking into consideration it runs on a server OS with all the stuff which should not active in such environments I'm a bit afraid about the desktop future especially in non RDS environments...
- BrentforWe have received a lot of requests for these features, but they are completely optional to use, of course.
- Optional is one thing - but sometimes customers want to opt out of Modern desktop but keep classic desktop withput modern apps etc. Wonder why those customer requests seem to be ignored.
- Thank you for updating the panther setup which was the same since Vista with small refreshes. Much appreciate all the good UX improvements you bring over to Windows Server 2025!
- I feel like the inclusion of bluetooth poses a bigger security risk on server
- BrentforIt depends on the Server role and what it is being used for. But ultimately, for it to work a device driver and supported hardware need to be present.
blake-day
I am very happy we have it. It is not that easy to send and receive files automatically, but enables us to connect mouse, keyb, hearing aids or simple headset for MS Teams etc. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-server-insiders/feature-request-done-full-bluetooth-support-in-windows-server/td-p/3711339 it was much requested. This is just one "mega-thread": https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-server-for-it-pro/bluetooth-and-wireless-display-not-working-on-windows-server/m-p/3709709#M9149
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