Tag:"Usability" | Microsoft Community Hub

Let's discuss about Windows Setup (offline) - what would you wish for? - Panther 2.0
After more than 10 years the Windows Setup (offline) has not changed. And comparing to other OSes this becomes very obvious. We are all familiar with the Windows Setup. It appear very streamlined. The UX is still in Windows Vista Design, not following any principles of design language, comparing to OOBE, this is so obvious. Changing the UI and changing the workflow does not really need to change the tooling like unattend.xml etc. rather bringing more of these what you could automate back to the user and his choice. If you happen to install the current Kubuntu / Ubuntu then you will notice a huge advantage of the setup process compared to Windows in offline phase: - you can specify the login / account (Windows OOBE) - specify the time zone and language (Windows OOBE) - connect to WiFi (Windows OOBE) - download updates and DRIVERS from the repository (Windows OOBE has a late feature for that but not consistent) While setting things up the OS is already installing so you effectively save much of time compared to Windows Setup. I understand the investments into Windows Setup are minimal since Windows Vista / WS 2008, yet it changed a lot in terms of speed, design and UX and especially technology like WIM, language independency. Investing in to Windows Setup (panther) might not be feasible as many automations rely on this (ConfigMgr, MDT (no longer supported with W11), Intune Autopilot AND most device come predeployed. It is about time for the Windows and Windows Server to reconsider what's technically possible. Thanks for your feedback and participation on this here and please also in Feedback hub (Windows key + F). Here's my item feedback hub https://aka.ms/AAohace Wishes, ideas? Like the idea, give it a vote.
Karl-WE
Jan 28, 2024 Place Windows deployment
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Possible to Change Default Font Colors in SharePoint Online?
I Keep Setting the Headings to Stark Black And the body text like this to a medium gray. I'd like to emphasize browse-ability on a few SharePoint pages, demonstrating a strategic-heading technique to build consumable pages for those of us who like to skim pages to get the gist of whatever boring long run-on technically-detailed sentences consume the pixels in between. But I have to set the color for Every Freaking Heading. And Every Freaking Paragraph. And it's getting annoying. Annoying enough to use capitals improperly for emphasis. Is it possible to change the default colors? Perhaps through PNP, SPO, or some other method within the legal limits of wizardry? I'd really like to showcase textual content creation that can be consumed effectively at multiple depths, and all this color changing is a real agitator. (that sentence sounds cool if you say it out loud in the voice of Tow Mater) Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks!
kduck
Mar 22, 2022 Place SharePoint
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Targeting Outdated Content to Enhance Global Search Results
Given the accelerating content scale and decreasing attention span in the modern workplace, how do you keep your global search results fresh and relevant? How do you know which content is out of date? If I see something five or more years old, or happen to notice duplicate documents, I'll reach out to the subject matter expert. The name of the content owner is in the metadata, so I know exactly who to contact. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
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Sandra_Flanagan
Dec 16, 2021 Place SharePoint
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Feedback
There is no obvious feedback system for the product, so this will get dumped here. No confirmation dialogue on drag and drop files and folders is a terrible usability issue (esspecially with sensitive touchpads). Esspecially as there is no obvious way to undo actions. You then have to workout what has been what has been dragged, to undo manualy.
Sam_Lawman
Sep 08, 2021 Place SharePoint
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Usability
While I do like the new admin center, but why should I really use this over just RDP'ing into the server. You have some of the modules (Active Directory, DHCP, and DNS) in preview mode, but they really aren't useable. The other thing is in most RDP connection manager we can have multiple tabs open, but in Windows Admin Center you can only have one connection to a server, cluster, etc. Don't have the ability to click and tell it to open in a new tab. Not sure if this is really a place for it, but there doesn't seem to be a Group Policy module and maybe not something that can be put into Windows Admin Center.
gzygadlo
Dec 08, 2020 Place Windows Admin Center
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PDF Application Clobbering are blocking my ability to use Edge by default for employees.
I would love to use Edge as the default browser. The ability to use enterprise site mode and the built-in IE mode are amazing but Chrome legacy browser support works OK and the PDF issues with Edge are just to much for me to change from using IE 11 as default (lots of legacy web apps here) and Chrome as our supported browsers internally. Generally if Edge would stop trying to be a PDF viewer it would already be deployed, less then a month after its official release. We pay lots of money for 3rd party PDF software that is critical to many aspects of our business and internal process flow to allow Edge within 10 ft of a PDF file other than to download it and open in that program I've got set these settings: 1) Settings -> Downloads -> Ask where to save each file before downloading -> Disabled 2) Settings -> Site permissions -> PDF documents -> Always open PDF files externally -> Enabled When my employee's click on a PDF to download it they are taken to the Edge PDF viewer and given a prompt that says the "PDF reader is disabled" and given directions to either turn it on or download a file. This means the Setting 2 above is not applied right as it shouldn't prompt. Of course they choose "Download file" but when downloading the file they are then prompted and asked where do they want to save the file( This means setting 1 don't ask where to save is broken). Then the file is downloaded to their computer where if they haven't set the option to always open a PDF with system viewer the file is downloaded breaking (setting 2) and not opening externally. Honestly this is a bad and confusing experience for my employees' they need the PDF in external programs as we are using many sophisticated features of 3rd party products that the builtin reader is useless for. It takes way to many clicks and way to much troubleshooting for the users to get PDFs to open in a way that our business needs them to for me to currently make Edge our default browser. Realistically the PDF's should be downloaded to disk by default once the setting to "Always open PDF files externally" is enabled and if the option is set to always open in system viewer that should work when the files are clicked, I also have not found a way to reverse the option to always open in system viewer certainly would be nice to know how to reverse that so I can figure out how to set that as default. I also need some officially supported way to prevent Edge from trying to become the default PDF viewer. I've yet to find a good way, my solution works but it's not good. GPO setting like "Do not clobber or break PDF usage on peoples computers" would be a good start.
Andrew Hoffman
Sep 23, 2020 Place Discussions
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Feature Request: Disable Video on a Tab in the same fashion as Mute Tab
This is just a quick suggestion to the dev team - it would be great to have a 'disable video' option that works like the 'mute tab' option, except it prevents any videos from playing on the selected tab.
CogniLore_Andre
Feb 01, 2020 Place Discussions
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Gear > Site Settings
Whose grand idea was it to remove Site Settings from the gear menu on some, nearly all pages? And replace it with "Change the look" and "Site designs" - like how often does an admin need to change that? Please put it back everywhere. Making me to go to Site Contents is farcical and that's being polite. Sorry to be terse but some decisions completely flummox me.
ironicrebel
Jan 28, 2019 Place SharePoint
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