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Hope to hear about a native desktop client for Windows Admin Center. Also, a modern MMC that is not web based. This is Windows and Microsoft after all. We want native speed.
- John MMCs are no longer developed. There are many reasons why. One could be security concerns them using old protocols, being highly "user / password" bound and unlikely support any modern authentication methods. And a last one MIGHT be even incredibly old code that is hard to maintain. If you go to some MMCs like DHCP (and other) and choose restart service, voila the NT4 animation comes up for restarting services. This gives you a glimpse of how old these are under the hood.
- Davanna-White
Microsoft
You're not the first to ask about a native app for Windows Admin Center, especially for the goal of better performance. Right now, we're currently focused on VM management performance, and our backend update to .NET Core has made Windows admin Center even faster. After the backend update becomes generally available, what other specific areas are you looking for us to improve performance in?- Microsoft tried the "web based" approach in the 90s and realized it was bad, so they invented MMC. MMC is extensible and highly configurable. You can make console files that contain only the tools you need, and even lock it down to share those console files with help desk staff, etc. It remains far superior to a webpage. No one would have been opposed to a web front end to MMC, but that's not what MS did. Microsoft could have (should have) "modernized" the MMC platform instead of creating WAC. I've never met an IT pro who prefers WAC over MMC. I guess this is another case of MS missing/ignoring the needs of their customers. WAC has some cool features, but those could have been added to MMC.
- Davanna, It is two fold. One, native always beats a web application. I've tested the new WAC and it still is slow compared to the old MMC which are supposed to be no longer under development. Second, with a native client there is tighter integration to the os itself, allowing for things like smartcard and token authentication, which are not possible when you are using WAC in either a desktop install or a gateway install. All around, it is better to have native tooling. That is why so many people are asking for a native client.
