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.

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~~~~

While Windows Admin Center can be useful from a management perspective, if you are using other (third p  ...