By Philip Churchill on April 17th, 2008
Add-In: Advanced Admin Console Feedback
Advanced Admin Console developer Andreas M is requesting feedback on his add-in for WHS. Andreas also points out that he is also currently preparing a new version of the Advanced Admin Console that will (optionally) have a shutdown button in the left corner of the toolbar.
All the info is at Andreas’ Space.
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I love this add-in. I use the custom section to link to the Desktop Icon so the Desktop will show up. And I link to IE so I can get a browser to log into some services I have running on WHS.
I’d like to see the Desktop link as one of the main links. Also the ability to move those links around. Some of the default ones I really don’t want to use.
Good work on this add in!
Another Fanboi’s obsession and utterly devoted. All these third party add-ins demonstrate just how much missing functions are needed in WHS. But who wants to purchase a broken home server with data corruption, and have to deal with beta grade third party add-in code on top of it?
Ask yourself, do home users purchasing WHS actually want to being beta tinkers by fiddling around with an unfinished, buggy and crippled server?
unfinished – because it’s not ready for the public
buggy – as 3200 bugs were reported by WHS Team
crippled – nonfunctional with KB 946676
Customers want WHS to be working as advertised, not told wait until June 2008 to get it going, when they bought it way back in November 2007!
Is it any wonder why the WHS Team is working on “Vail” which is the codename for the second version of WHS!
How about getting it all together with version one first???
The bloody stupid WHS management console is a flop anyhow.
It doesn’t even maximize fullscreen, and you got to play around with the single limited top icon button row for all them would be added third party add-in solutions anyhow.
And think just at a time when all these “wow” graphics are being praised and sold, and we end up with 800×600 windows on our 30inch screens!
That’s because WHS wasn’t built from the ground up, it was built over and on top of another server called Windows Server 2003. More bloatware, more bugs and more unwanted spaghetti code sauce!
Patch me, Service Pack me, no wait, it takes a Power Pack for WHS. Do you see what I mean?
Why pay big huge amounts of MONEY for a makings of a WHS catastrophe?
Microsoft should have tested their own software on WHS!
NO MORE BETA TESTING PLEASE!
The problem with PAID software today is in that unlike FREE software which is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, the PAID version ought to be fully functional, and providing a proven “benefit” as advertised, rather than just attempting to offer another “WOW” experience of what it doesn’t actually fulfill.
PAID should be proven benefit, NOT some offering, etc…
And as for third party add-ins, they should be needed for missing core functions in WHS, like basic administration functions. This just shows how much WHS still isn’t ready for the public, despite having a proven known design flaw that leads to data corruption.
See KB 946676
http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/946676
Wow, there are some truly moronic comments here.
@Aaron
Your comment is of no value what’s so ever too!
Why can’t you provide some feedback that’s more worthy, something that everyone else can see you are setting the better example, instead of just demonstrating to everyone
your own words by doing the very thing you condemn by just ranting off some stupid comment.
The Advanced Admin Console developer Andreas M., wanted feedback, even if you just don’t happen to appreciate reading the different opinions you may not hold dear or agree with.
Aaron, your types just give Microsoft a bad image, bad name, bad repetition. Because, you ought to know better, than to bash others in the first place.
Bash Microsoft, bash something about the related topic, not your fellow human beings brother. Especially, for only not agreeing with your lack of view. In fact, you didn’t have a point to be made at all…
@Norana
If you did an ounce of research then you’d see my posts all over this forum. Unfortunately I’ve found that trying to discuss relevant subjects with many of you is like trying to discuss the theory of relativity with a 3rd grader. Only the third grade would actually learn something.
My earlier comment is dead on. Aside from the very first post on this thread, the rest are complete garbage. They’re the same morons who take every possible opportunity to bash WHS and Microsoft regardless of the topic at hand.
Let’s break it down, shall we?
ThePresident’s comment: “Another Fanboi’s obsession and utterly devoted.” Is he kidding? What does that even mean? The rest of his comment is equally or even more incoherent than the first sentence. Oh, but he was sure to refer to the KB article, no matter how irrelevant it is!
AAAck’s comment: The graphics resolution of the WHS interface? How does this have anything whatsoever to do with the Advanced Admin Console?
Reesa10′s comment: Nice rant about paid software. How this relates to the Advanced Admin Console is completely beyond me, especially when you consider the fact that it’s actually free. Oh, and thanks for the completely irrelevant link to the KB article!
Yes, these are genuinely moronic comments and they’re likely by the same one or two people.
@Aaron
Look dude, nobody wants to give an ounce researching all your posts all over this forum. We already can see for ourselves how you waste enough of our time on bashing others to make yourself feel good.
Enough dude, get your act together. Not everyone is going to agree with you. In addition, you had only concerned yourself, about only those interested in enthusiastically “loving” anything to do with WHS.
TheJudge was a bit strong with his words stating, “I love this add-in”. But, then goes on to say, “Some of the default ones I really don’t want to use”. It would be more appropriate just to report how to improve this third party add-in.
And YES, the WHS management console doesn’t maximize it’s window to be fullscreen, which is a valid good point. As why shouldn’t the WHS management console be viewed maximized anyhow?
Are you stating that WHS management console should always be viewed in a limited sized window?
And YES, everyone using WHS third party add-ins don’t want to tinker around with beta quality code in their paid for products. Perhaps, your only testing out your copy of WHS for Microsoft?
The rest of us, don’t want buggy code, problems from using our WHS products. That’s been one of the biggest disappointments about WHS, having to deal with the need of working around all the limitations, failings and shortcomings of WHS.
@Zen
“Get my act together”? Ha! What are you, a professor? What a joke.
I’m tired of nimwits taking every opportunity to bash this product regardless of the relevance.
If you read my post further up, I said “aside form the very first post of this thread”, meaning TheJudge’s comment. As far as I’m concerned it’s the only comment here with any kind of substance or relevance to the subject.
@Aaron – I agree with you completely and have said similar comments about the moronic people here that love to bash WHS – on an enthusiasts site. Talk about pointless.
As for the add-on, I love it. Great feature set, works flawlessly. A wake-up/sleep/reboot option would be a nice addition. I know there’s other add-ons that do it, but it would be nice to have that in the admin console.
One other suggestion – how about a name change? Admin console… sounds a little old school. How about WHS Power Tools, or Enhanced Console, Advanced Console, SAK -swiss army knife
… just throwing some random things out.