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- I would really appreciate proper Firefox support in WAC. Hopefully with some of these updates that will be addressed? Looking like some nice performance improvements otherwise though!
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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.
- Hopefully WAC will get to feature and performance parity to classic MMC snap ins for AD, as current WAC implementation is slow, finnicky and lacks bunch of features needed in our env. Speaking of which - please tell me MMC will get some much needed love soon!
- MSFT have already said when WAC was released that MMC would be getting no further development. Definitely agree on the need for more rapid parity on WAC vs MMC Snap-Ins though.
- Absolutely Mario / Charles: My fav missing extensions: - Active Directory Administrative Center, since fully relies on PowerShell and has more features than Users and Computers - DFS - Sites and Services - AD CS (which is really horrible to use with many certs) These would be a great start but hope that not the WAC team has to do these extensions but rather the product teams that usually hold these topics for Windows Server, so WAC team can focus on the core product.
- I have a dream : Support for physical AZERTY keyboards to connect in RDP via WAC ...
