General Feedback
Do you have an idea or suggestion based on your experience with Windows Server? We would love to hear it! Please take a few minutes to submit your idea in the one of the forums available on the right or vote up an idea submitted by another Windows Server customer. All of the feedback you share in these forums is monitored and reviewed by the Microsoft engineering teams responsible for building Windows Server. Suggestions can apply to both released and Technical Preview versions of Windows Server.
Important:
1. Remote Desktop Services (RDS)-related feedback must be provided in their UV site: https://remotedesktop.uservoice.com/forums/266795-remote-desktop-services-for-enterprises
2. Requests for feature changes around the end-user experience, such as desktop shell, start menu, individual consumer apps, etc. must be provided through the Windows 10 Feedback Hub tool. We have no ownership of these types of non-Windows Server components.
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Why a mobile user interface on Windows Server?
Why Microsoft develop a mobile user interface on a server operating system. Its unuseable, unpractical and without any comon sense.
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(Microsoft Survey & Interview) Improve deployment and servicing
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3 votes -
Edge and Flash on Server 2016 Removal
why?? will these be removable features when it goes RTM?
4 votes -
Please add install GUI option and provide all powershell options as GUI selectables
During the installation please allow GUI as an option. Also please include most if not all hidden powershell commands as GUI options. It doesn't have to be pretty, but being able to check some boxes with advanced options instead of having to learn all the powershell commands each time would save time (example would be Storage Pools).
29 votes -
System cCnter Unified agent, as instalable Windows Server feature..
Unify All the System Center Agents (virtual machine manager, SCOM, etc) in one solution (for example: SC unified Agent) .Integrate the System Center Agent as a Windows Server Feature (like .Net, BITS and the like).
39 votes -
Super Fine application control
In Windows 2000 Advanced Server/Datacenter Server, User could set very fine controls for all applications running or applications that will launch at specific time/interval.
User could set:
Affinity
Priority
Memory Usage
Other fine control settingsNewer Windows versions removed this feature called "Process Control app UI", I hope in Windows Server 2016 we can get this functionality back so user can set super fine control for each application / process / filter / directshow filter .. etc
Image from Windows 2000 Datacenter Server:
http://xi-networks.net/Windows2000Server/Control.png10 votes -
Keep the licensing model of Windows Server 2016 as in 2012
The WS2012 licensing model with absolutely the same features in Standard and Datacenter Editions was the greatest thing. Virtualization rights was the only thing to think about - no headache about what is supported in which edition, what I should install, will it work etc. Please keep it like this in Windows Server 2016.
112 votes -
Cleanup font cache files
Remove these unnecessary files when user logs off or print job is finished:
c:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\~FontCache....dat
16 votes -
Decouple Windows Media Stack from Desktop Experience
Some Products requiere Windows Media Services as a prerequisite for Installation (for example Exchange Server). Currently you have to install Dekstop Expirience to get these Services.
The downside of this is, that Applications which require these services are automatically required to run with a GUI (no server core support because of Desktop experience prerequisites)
39 votes -
1 vote
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Reward user feedback
It's all wonderful to post ideas here but some sort of rewards would be in order as we help you sell more software with great new features! ;-)
16 votes -
Add cross-server service dependencies
If I have an application that needs SQL to be running on another server, it would be great to be able to add a dependency in my services control panel that would prevent that service from being started until it saw SQL running on another server, with an optional startup delay afterward.
In addition to this, in general, a "startup delay" you can specify in seconds for services would be beneficial. We've had some race conditions in our environment which have meant some services have failed to start due to network adapter/netlogon availabilty, and the options to correct this are…
17 votes -
baked in integration with azure/Office 365
The ability to move hyperv workloads or replicate AD objects to azure directly from the GUI without additional tools
5 votes -
Setting to set any program to run statically
Set any program to run in the background on startup and such
4 votes -
Access to Windows10 UAP APIs
The promise of the new Windows10 Universal Apps is that they will run anywhere. That should include the server and Azure. I'd like to write my core libraries so that the code can be used on phones, tablets, PCs, Consoles and in the cloud.
I especially want access to the MediaComposition and Win2D libraries for rendering my animations to video which I can then send to Azure Media Services for transcoding.
8 votes -
Update ADMT to be able to migrate Windows Apps
We are currently waiting for Windows 10 to be fully supported within ADMT. We can migrate the user, system but all complete with errors regarding Windows store apps. I do not want to fork out extra $$ just because Microsoft hasn't updated their basic tool yet. If we could migrate properly we would have bought more CALs.
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How to modify the default configuration of RDP?
In default configuration, security was set to 'Warn me if authentication fails'. I want to set 'Always connect, even if authentication fails' as default. I found Default.rdp in RDC Connections folder but can not find 'security' setting.
0 votes -
flash
update and enable
0 votes -
TaskbarLayout in LayoutModification not working
Customizing the Taskbar via GPO is not working when using the described way from:
https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/configuration/configure-windows-10-taskbar
1 vote -
Clustered task scheduler service
Task scheduler between clustered servers should have a way to easily configure it via GUI. Why not create it as a clustered service?
0 votes
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