What Are You Doing Right Now

siringo

finally got around to looking at Windows Admin Centre.
is it really as miserable as I found it during the 10 or so minutes I used it?

I travel and work from a non domain joined laptop.
From within WAC, I added Server 1, RDP'd into it. Then went and looked at the VM tab. Switched back to the RDP session and I'd been disconnected. Useless.
I added a 2nd server from another physical site. RDPd into that.
Went back to select Server 1 and RDP into that. Went to switch back to the 2nd server and had been disconnected.

Seems worthless to me.

scottalanmiller

Finally back home in Texas!

scottalanmiller

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

From within WAC, I added Server 1, RDP'd into it. Then went and looked at the VM tab. Switched back to the RDP session and I'd been disconnected. Useless.

Yeah, sadly, from what I've found, it doesn't work. Nothing connects or, if it does, doesn't stay connected long enough to function. I've not seen anyone get it working yet. Enough to take pictures, yes. Enough to use, no.

And this is from domain everything. Without a domain, even worse.

siringo

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

From within WAC, I added Server 1, RDP'd into it. Then went and looked at the VM tab. Switched back to the RDP session and I'd been disconnected. Useless.

Yeah, sadly, from what I've found, it doesn't work. Nothing connects or, if it does, doesn't stay connected long enough to function. I've not seen anyone get it working yet. Enough to take pictures, yes. Enough to use, no.

And this is from domain everything. Without a domain, even worse.

Crikey, I actually thought maybe I hadn't spent enough time looking into it all, but it sounds like I did after all.

JaredBusch

Heading to St. Louis.

dafyre

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Heading to St. Louis.

Couple of days early this go round, innit?

RojoLoco

@siringo I haven't had nearly that much trouble with it. Running on Windows 10, opening WAC in chrome, very few issues. Most of my problems have been on 2012R2 machines. It's not perfect, but my experience has been far less troublesome than yours apparently.

scottalanmiller

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo I haven't had nearly that much trouble with it. Running on Windows 10, opening WAC in chrome, very few issues. Most of my problems have been on 2012R2 machines. It's not perfect, but my experience has been far less troublesome than yours apparently.

To what do you connect? We've mostly used it on Server 2019 and truly it has been useless. If you ever get it to connect, which is rare, it disconnects before you can complete any action and never does anything useful.

RojoLoco

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo I haven't had nearly that much trouble with it. Running on Windows 10, opening WAC in chrome, very few issues. Most of my problems have been on 2012R2 machines. It's not perfect, but my experience has been far less troublesome than yours apparently.

To what do you connect? We've mostly used it on Server 2019 and truly it has been useless. If you ever get it to connect, which is rare, it disconnects before you can complete any action and never does anything useful.

My Hyper-V hosts are 2016, as are most of the VMs. The 2012R2 boxes are still bare metal systems that we can't ditch yet.

kamidon

Bored at work with nothing to do, so I'm on here and Spiceworks.

scottalanmiller

@kamidon said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Bored at work with nothing to do, so I'm on here and Spiceworks.

No idea what that feels like.

scottalanmiller

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo I haven't had nearly that much trouble with it. Running on Windows 10, opening WAC in chrome, very few issues. Most of my problems have been on 2012R2 machines. It's not perfect, but my experience has been far less troublesome than yours apparently.

To what do you connect? We've mostly used it on Server 2019 and truly it has been useless. If you ever get it to connect, which is rare, it disconnects before you can complete any action and never does anything useful.

My Hyper-V hosts are 2016, as are most of the VMs. The 2012R2 boxes are still bare metal systems that we can't ditch yet.

Weird, we've tried 2016, no luck. 2012R2 are hopeless for sure.

kamidon

@scottalanmiller I'm sensing sarcasm! lol

RojoLoco

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo I haven't had nearly that much trouble with it. Running on Windows 10, opening WAC in chrome, very few issues. Most of my problems have been on 2012R2 machines. It's not perfect, but my experience has been far less troublesome than yours apparently.

To what do you connect? We've mostly used it on Server 2019 and truly it has been useless. If you ever get it to connect, which is rare, it disconnects before you can complete any action and never does anything useful.

My Hyper-V hosts are 2016, as are most of the VMs. The 2012R2 boxes are still bare metal systems that we can't ditch yet.

Weird, we've tried 2016, no luck. 2012R2 are hopeless for sure.