WinQual has moved to sysdev.microsoft.com

Question

I have several programs registered with WinQual and have been successfully tracking crash reports sent via WER. after Microsoft\'s update to WinQual I cannot find any of my

Answer 1

It looks like there's a new tool for managing products for Windows Error Reporting called Microsoft Ecosystem Metadata Exchange - this also appears to replace the Product Feedback Mapping Tool. Once you're logged into the new Dev Center you can find it here:

https://sysdev.microsoft.com/en-US/desktop/member/Telemetry/download/MetadataExchange.msi

You'll also need the Windows Live Sign In Assistant:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26686

You can then use the Microsoft Ecosystem Metadata Exchange tool to view and update your product details. It looks like it has a PowerShell interface available too.

Answer 2

The new WER site is indeed difficult to use. E.g., we always requested an edit field per event where we could log the ID of our bug tracking system. They never added this feature but now they removed also their own event ID so we cannot match and track WER reports with our own change management system.

For MEME there seems to be no help or documentation available, doing a WebSearch shows Gareth's blog as one of the top results...

While the WER site looks more fancy but in fact is less usable the MEME tool could turn out to be an improvement.

I know I am not providing many answers here but I wanted to encourage everybody to send complaints and change requests to Microsoft so eventually they might find motiviation to improve things.

You can use the email address provided above, but they pointed me to wer at microsoft dot com

Good luck.

Answer 3

Some of our errors are still showing up under the company hotlist under Reports, but a huge amount are missing. There is also a link: Where did my events go?, but as far as I can tell this leads to an old article, and does not explain the current changes.

As to contacting Microsoft, you could try the Forums, Sometimes they come back. I've been told that The ISV is the one to use for WinQual. There used to be a WinQual specific one but it got rolled up into this one.