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Indexed issues: 62

Dominant language: PowerShell
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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62 open issues indexed

Uninstall docker leaves executables. Open

bug triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#648 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Process-isolated ltsc2025 containers: LSM service start deadlocks in `CEventDispatcher::WaitForSessionState` on an event that is never signalled Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#647 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2026
wcifs.sys leaks FLT_STREAM_CONTEXT / FLT_FILE_CONTEXT references on every WCI reparse-point open - unbounded kernel pool growth (WCsc/WCfc/WCri/FMwi/FMfc, 0 frees in 7.5M allocations) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#646 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Process.Start() and PowerShell Start-Process hang on newer mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:ltsc2019 / .NET Framework 4.8 LTSC2019 images Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#645 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Process-isolated container remains "Running" for exactly TcpTimedWaitDelay after all processes exit, if a loopback TCP connection was closed Open

bug triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#644 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Create a CLI and API like wslc but for Windows containers Open

enhancement triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#643 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Intermittent STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION enumerating immutable layer on Windows Server 2025 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#642 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 16, 2026
ETW/WPR traces from Host Process Containers have unresolvable \Device\VhdHardDisk{} module paths — symbol resolution fails Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#639 · 5 comments · Opened May 12, 2026
windows/servercore:ltsc2025: in-container Windows Update activity bloats sandbox.vhdx Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#637 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 21, 2026
bindflt: concurrent relative-path `NtCreateFile` on a mapped directory intermittently returns `STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER` Open

bug triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#635 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2026
Symlinks with executable targets on volume mounts cannot be executed by cmd Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#634 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2026
CimFS snapshotter causes BSOD on Windows Server 2022 (build 20348.4773) under concurrent container workload Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#633 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Proposal for a new Windows app runtime execution engine Open

enhancement triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#632 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 28, 2026
HNS endpoints are staying as stale even after pods are terminated Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#631 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 26, 2026
`install-docker-ce.ps1` should install the Windows feature `Microsoft-Hyper-V`, not the non-existent Windows feature `Hyper-V` Open

enhancement triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#630 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2026
Support DotNet Aspire in Windows Container Open

enhancement triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#629 · 2 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Howto?: MSMQ in container with persistent volume Open

question triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#627 · 10 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2026
Windows Server Core LTSC 2022 container – Unable to install Media Foundation (Server-Media-Foundation) Open

enhancement triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#626 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Can't re-start docker container when AMD GFX in computer (HTTP code 500) server error - hcsshim::ActivateLayer failed in Win32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. (0x20) Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#623 · 15 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 6, 2025
MSVC does not support long paths inside Docker container Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#622 · 9 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2025
containerd volume ownership results in access denied by HostProcessContainer Open

question triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#621 · 16 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 5, 2025
All new HNS endpoints are getting allocated state 3 and even kubernetes.default is not getting resolved from these containers. Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#618 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 17, 2025
UVM WSH configuration seems wrong, leading to services unaccessible in Hyper-V isolation mode Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#613 · 11 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2025
K8S DNSConfig not apply to the pod Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#612 · 13 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2025
Feature Request: GUI support for Windows Containers with Process Isolation Open

enhancement triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#611 · 9 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Sep 4, 2025
docker build fails when dockerd data-root is on NVMe Direct Disk Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#609 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 22, 2025
Azure VFP Switch Extension differs between SKUs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#608 · 19 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2025
the "Extracting" step of Windows containers with Docker still takes an eternity Open

bug documentation

microsoft/Windows-Containers#607 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 4, 2025
SmbGlobalMapping Username and Domain is set to Null/Null after beeing mounted Open

bug triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#604 · 19 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2025
Run Windows Containers natively on Azure Linux on-premises on bare-metal hardware or virtualized Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#596 · 9 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2025
As a Developer I want to be able to have a proper out of the box experience with Windows Containers Open

🔖 ADO enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#593 · 5 comments · Opened May 28, 2025
Docker Build Timeout Issue For Untrusted Workload Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#590 · 17 comments · Opened May 22, 2025
Installing Visual Studio Build Tools in a container is one of the worst experiences for a real value prop to containerization Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#589 · 19 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 22, 2025
Unable to set disk quota for Windows2025 containers Open

🚀 LTSC 2025 bug

microsoft/Windows-Containers#587 · 31 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 13, 2025
Feature Request: Merge PATH env from both configs and registry hive Open

enhancement triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#582 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2025
DISM Languages and International Servicing Command-Line Options not working with offline image inside container Open

🔖 ADO question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#577 · 12 comments · Opened Mar 23, 2025
Server Core LTSC 2016 contains .NET Framework 4.7.2 instead of 4.6.2 Open

bug documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#562 · 23 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 15, 2025
Windows Container TCP connection timeout after 10 minutes of idle Open

bug Networking

microsoft/Windows-Containers#552 · 42 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 10, 2024
CCG Custom Plugin Open

gMSA question transfer

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#544 · 25 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 8, 2024
CCG Custom Plugin Returning Error (The remote procedure call failed.) Open

⚠️ ICM bug gMSA

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#541 · 39 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2024
Kerberos broken in recent nanoserver images Open

🔖 ADO bug gMSA

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#537 · 25 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2024
Add IPv6 support to network drivers Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#522 · 14 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 5, 2024
Windows pod stuck in terminating state with subpath in volumemounts Open

bug Windows on Kubernetes

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#518 · 25 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 23, 2024
Container networking on Kubernetes broken after Server 2022 July 2024 / KB5040437 (OS Build 20348.2582) update Open

🔖 ADO bug Networking Windows on Kubernetes

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#516 · 74 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 17, 2024
Allow importing trusted root certificates into the per-user root store as ContainerUser Open

🔖 ADO enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#506 · 10 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 1, 2024
NPU Acceleration Open

🔖 ADO AI/ML enhancement perf

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#505 · 11 comments · Opened May 31, 2024
Support 3rd Party Vendor Specific Graphics APIs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#504 · 18 comments · Opened May 31, 2024
mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:10.0.20348.2340 BSODs Windows 2022 10.0.20348.1726, mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:10.0.20348.1970 does not Open

bug Windows on Kubernetes

microsoft/Windows-Containers#502 · 42 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 24, 2024
NTAccount/Sid Translation fails with RPC Endpoint Mapper Authentication policy enabled and IIS installed Open

🔖 ADO bug gMSA P0

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/Windows-Containers#496 · 28 comments · Opened May 17, 2024
Requesting elaboration for HCN error 2151350293 (0x803b0015) Open

Networking question

microsoft/Windows-Containers#485 · 27 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 15, 2024

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