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
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Please Stop Using Ugly Aero Lite Theme in Windows Server
The Aero Lite theme looks ugly and does not represent the client version (Windows 10) of the OS. Please just use regular Windows 10 theme. It is critical in RDS servers that the experience is the same with the client version of the OS. I understand that GUI on Server is very bad but the RDS role requires a GUI.
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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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Edge and Flash on Server 2016 Removal
why?? will these be removable features when it goes RTM?
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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 -
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 -
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)
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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 -
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
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Please include Microsoft office apps on WVD or Remote desktop so we could effectively do our tasks as scrubbers.
When we open remove desktop, there are three applications available for us to use. We are using rave and we are extracting it from there to excel. Since we are opening rave using IE from WVD, the copy paste feature isn't working so we can't copy the content from rave and paste it to an application outside wvd which is the excel. If you could add excel on wvd, it would be easy for us to do our task instead of manually typing the contents we are extracting from rave.
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0 votes
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Make Branch Cache easier to setup and verify its working.
Make this easier!
To prehash content and preload the content on hosted cache servers
Log on to the file or Web server that contains the data that you wish to preload, and identify the folders and files that you wish to load on one or more remote hosted cache servers.Run Windows PowerShell as an Administrator. For each folder and file, run either the Publish-BCFileContent command or the Publish-BCWebContent command, depending on the type of content server, to trigger hash generation and to add data to a data package.
After all the data has been added to the data package,…
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passwords accept hash, instead of Base64
from autounattend.xml to powershell, user accounts are managed by base64encoded strings. This is ... frankly ... terrible, as it's not even technically encrypted. Want to see that admin password default in the autounattend.xml file? simply run:
$nextstep = [System.Convert]::FromBase64String("<put it here>")
$finalstep = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($nextstep)Please allow hashing/salting to be used for password conifguration, be it from an unattend.xml file or as an option when creating new accounts to allow at least modest protection when passing credentials.
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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.
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flash
update and enable
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