Remove Server 2012 Remote Access Server

Question

My IT director was walking me through setting up a Server 2012 VPN/RA server. We did not do this in our test environment, and now I would like to remove it.

I know that when installing this server it makes domain changes such as creating group policies etc, and I want to make sure when I remove it I do it properly.

The only documentation I can find from Microsoft, is regarding the Uninstall-RemoteAccess powershell command.

Will running this correctly remove the role, and undo any changes made to the domain and group policies?

He is director of the group IT, and is based in another office of our parent company. He was visiting for a day and wanted to run through it. We did not have enough time to set up a test environment. — James Edmonds, Dec 27 '13 at 09:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 26 '13 at 12:59

Can't say that I know for certain, but after reading the documentation on the Uninstall-RemoteAccess cmdlet I feel pretty certain saying that it doesn't remove every change made to the system. It says, among other things, the following, which I feel is the answer to your question:

The Unistall-RemoteAccess cmdlet uninstalls DirectAccess (DA) and VPN, both Remote Access (RA) VPN >and site-to-site VPN.

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This cmdlet will not handle removal of RA role and other dependent roles.

Since it explicitly states that it doesn't even remove the RA role, I feel pretty certain to say that it doesn't undo all changes. I can't comment on the specifics of group policy changes, but as a pure guess I would say that it doesn't undo such things.

Remove Server 2012 Remote Access Server

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