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by lunarg on June 4th 2025, at 15:03

While Microsoft is basically trying to force everyone to move to (paying) Azure for management of local servers by forcefully implementing tools like Azure Arc, many may not want to have this functionality forced on their on-premise servers. Although it has been made increasingly difficult, with Windows Server 2025, it is still possible to remove Azure Arc and other "cloud" functions.

Remove Azure Arc

In Windows Server 2025, Azure Arc has been changes to a "Windows capability" but it can be removed via Powershell just the same:

Remove-WindowsCapability -Online -Name AzureArcSetup~~~~

Remove Windows Admin Center setup

While Windows Admin Center can be useful from a management perspective, if you are using other (third party) tools for server management, or are using automation, then having Windows Admin Center present and ready to be deployed on each server is useless. You can remove the setup files via Powershell:

Remove-WindowsFeature -Name WindowsAdminCenterSetup

Remove Windows Feedback Hub

I've never ever used Windows Feedback Hub myself and don't really see why it has to be installed by default on each deployed server. As it is a modern app, it needs to be removed accordingly, again via Powershell:

Get-AppxPackage | ? {$_.Name -like 'Microsoft.WindowsFeedbackHub*'} | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | ? {$_.DisplayName -Like 'Microsoft.WindowsFeedbackHub'} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online
 
 
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