Windows 10: How to remove Roles and Features in Windows Server

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IT admins can use the Server Manager on a GUI-based Windows Server to easily remove roles and features. In this post, we will walk you through the process of how to remove Roles and Features in Windows Server. Before we jump into the subject matter proper, below is the prerequisite check; Plan on what you […]

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Manager Failed to retrieve the list of roles and components

Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Manager Failed to retrieve the list of roles and components while I'm trying to Add roles and features.

Also it doesn't give me a list from Windows Powershell (running as Admin): Get-Windows Features - ntProviderException.

sfc /scannow, RestoreHealth, SFCFix.exe
did not help.

Help me, please!

 

Cannot install anything from "Roles and Features"

I have Windows Server 2019 running on Parallels Desktop.

I cannot install additional "Roles and Features" from the server manager. No matter what I do, it fails silently.

Based on other knowledge base articles, I used the disk image and specified an alternate source path to \sources\sxs, but this made no difference whatsoever. Everything else (that I know of) works fine, and I can install Windows updates - but nothing from
"Roles and Features".

I don't see "Server" in the list of Windows versions on this forum, but I'm hoping this wouldn't make too much of a difference.

 

Removing Global Catalog role from server 2016 - Error

I was trying to replace a 2016 server with another server. While I was doing it, I remove Global Catalog role from the old server (running server 2016). I had to get up to do something before I can demote (remove ad role from it). I was doing it remotely
using RMM and splashtop. Now I can ping it from the new server but cannot remote into it nor manage it remotely. (Not from cmd, not from server manager and so on).

Server Manager shows Error - Cannot manage the operating system of the target computer. I tried rebooting it with shutdown -i and shutdown -m but nothing works. Shutdown -i says failed to connect to registry and shutdown -m says error 53.

I added the GC role but still getting error. I'm able to see event viewer and saw that it was getting Kerberos error.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,