Suggestions: The place Microsoft has really been asking for suggestions to be made is on
Connect. Suggestions made there go straight into their tracking tools. the concept for this forum was really just to provide a place to post a quick description of some bit of feedback submitted on Connect, along with a link to same. I really do encourage you to post suggestions there, to search for suggestions that you agree with (or disagree with) vote, comment, etc. Microsoft will take all that into account as they decide on features for the next version of WHS.
Restoring home PCs: The problems people usually have with drivers and Windows Home Server's computer restore process seem to come down to one of two things. The first is (unfortunately) that some computers have hardware which seems to require a driver loaded in order for WinPE (the environment for the Restore CD) to initialize. Those are the people who get a BSOD trying to boot the Restore CD. The other major problem that I see is that some hardware vendors deliver pretty poor drivers. In some cases WinPE just can't load and initialize a storage or network driver at all.
I don't think creating a custom Restore CD image for a particular computer would solve the second issue. A bad driver (perhaps one that requires configuration the first time it's loaded) is a bad driver. It might solve the first, if the problem hardware could be accurately identified and the driver extracted and slipstreamed into the image. But creating and burning that image would probably be scarier for "Joe 6 Pack" than the current process. And it would require Microsoft to completely rework the Restore CD from the ground up.
There are some other limitations to WinPE when used in this way, as well. That's why you can't use a secured wireless network for restoring; there's no way to initialize security for the wireless driver.
As for why the mods here sometimes don't seem to take to suggestions, well, there are lots of reasons. One is that we probably like the product, and even like it the way it is. Personally, though, I'm likely to be less than accepting of just about any suggestion that adds complexity to the product. Microsoft has built a ice simple tool for home users here, and I'd like to see it stay that way. Too many "features" and "nice to haves" and you get something that Microsoft is famously good at delivering: an 80 lb swiss army type knife. I think it would be great if Microsoft comes up with a better way to support netbooks and tablets (both of which seem to be subject to those BSOD issues when trying to boot the Restore CD), but I really feel it would have to be completely invisible to the end user to be much better than the current method for the average user.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
