Hi,
It would probably be better to look at whether this service could be enabled on a keystroke or when someone inserts a USB audio device rather than shipping it with the service enabled. I think that service has come disabled since Server 2003.
Andrew.
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Well, for what it is worth, it may have to be for accessibility sake.
There would be an extremely few-if I dare say any-of a server SKU that would need/want audio unless it is for accessibility purposes; such as in our world. A great deal of the time, these machines running a server SKU are headless and don't even have an audio device; so a USB based audio device would be required.
Nevertheless, I'll chase it and see where it goes.
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Thanks for this ... much appreciated. Not even for accessibility's sake, though that's always the simplest argument. You never know who is managing a server, I say, and the fact that the audio service is disabled by default, that's assuming the preferences of all admins are the same, and to assume is bad to begin with, doubly so in technology.
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Hello,
I can take this issue/question in to edad@microsoft.commailto:edad@microsoft.com and see what I can learn.
Tim
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Thanks for mentioning this ... I'm currently in the process of doing this myself, or I will be. I'm wondering something, though, considering all of the other enhancements, why not make the audio service available by default in Windows 2016/ Would really help with accessibility.
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Hi:
In general the process should be straight forward. Mount the Server 2016 ISO image, run setup.exe and follow the prompts. You will run into a situation where you'll need to reboot, and when the system comes back up the audio service may not be running, I forget if that setting is preserved. However, assuming it does come up with the audio service running, you can launch Narrator and complete setup. You'll then need to reinstall your primary screen reader, and you're done. Note that while I know it requires sighted assistance, I still think that for a production server its not a good idea to do an in place upgrade as sometimes the installer doesn't do a good job of cleaning up the old operating system. However, if that isn't an option this should work.
Ryan
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how to do that?
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