Windows 2012 server without gui

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I have a Windows 2012 server from a VPS and I RDP to it to manage. Due to low memory, I want to remove the UI infrastructure and only use remote telnet. For this I have the Telnet server switched on and can verify I can remotely access it. When I remove user interface feature from server manager, it's asking me to remove Telnet server as well as Powershell both I need for remote administering.

How do I achieve this goal?

Edit1: I tried via remove features option from server manager.

I have an Amazon EC2 instance. I could not find there an option to launch a server core instance

Babu James

Posted 2015-06-02T18:36:18.593

Reputation: 301

What commands exactly are you using to remove these features? Update your question to reflect this new information. – Ramhound – 2015-06-02T18:38:17.700

Windows cannot run without graphics mode. I doubt Server Core would give you the improvements you want. It still runs a GUI, after all. It’s just cmd instead of Explorer. – Daniel B – 2015-06-02T18:53:26.507

@Ramhound Updated – Babu James – 2015-06-03T03:50:26.137

@DanielB Could you comment on edits? – Babu James – 2015-06-03T03:50:46.630

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Did you try to use Minimal Server Interface to see if still doing the same? in a case you dont know how To configure Server with a GUI installation to use the Minimal Server Interface, you must remove the Server Graphical Shell feature by using Windows PowerShell or the Remove Roles And Features Wizard

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