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 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
@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…
@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.
@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.