Remove Features Windows Server 2012
Open up Server Manager, click Manage in top right, click remove roles and features. Popular Topics in Windows Server. How to remove the SMTP Service from Windows 2012 R2 Had to install a SMTP gateway on a Windows 2012 R2 host which already had OS SMTP service installed for testing a firewall. Normally, I would have removed via Windows Features/Roles system but the option to remove feature wad greyed out.
This is Vimal Shekar and Krishnan Ayyer from the Windows Support team. Today in this blog, we will be discussing about an issue that we are seeing increasingly being reported in support. We will look at the effects of removing.Net Framework from a Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 installation.Windows Server 2012 includes.NET Framework 4.5 and Windows Server 2012 R2 includes.NET Framework 4.5.1. The.NET Framework provides a comprehensive and consistent programming model to build and run applications (including Roles and Features) that are built for various platforms. Windows Explorer (Graphical Shell), Server Manager, Windows PowerShell, IIS, ASP.NET, Hyper-V, etc, are all dependent on.NET Framework. Since there are multiple OS components dependent on.Net Framework, this feature is installed by default.
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Therefore, you do not have to install it separately.It is not recommended to uninstall.NET Framework.