Event banner
Event details
Prasidh_Arora
Microsoft
MicrosoftAgreed, has been requested for a while! What's your main motivation around this? I'm assuming performance? Bringing a native client won't inherently improve performance. We are actively working on performance updates with our modernized gateway and Hyper-V improvements, while still keeping it a web-based application. Would love to hear your thoughts on whether these improvements start addressing your concern.
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.