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JohnWickXV
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Oct 29, 2024
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Issue in Uninstallation of AMA for Arc Enabled Windows server

Dear Community,    As a troubleshooting, I want to uninstall the AMA agent from Azure arc enabled server, I tried "Uninstall" from Azure arc machine - Extension - Uninstall but it went into "Deleti...
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    MHenshaw
    Oct 29, 2024

    hey! Try these command's there from the MS Docs regarding uninstalling the extension so may work

    PowerShell "Remove-AzConnectedMachineExtension -MachineName <arc-server-name> -ResourceGroupName <resource-group-name> -Name AzureMonitorWindowsAgent"

    Azcli -- "az connectedmachine extension delete --name AzureMonitorWindowsAgent --machine-name <arc-server-name> --resource-group <resource-group-name>"

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MHenshaw
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Oct 29, 2024

hey! Try these command's there from the MS Docs regarding uninstalling the extension so may work

PowerShell "Remove-AzConnectedMachineExtension -MachineName <arc-server-name> -ResourceGroupName <resource-group-name> -Name AzureMonitorWindowsAgent"

Azcli -- "az connectedmachine extension delete --name AzureMonitorWindowsAgent --machine-name <arc-server-name> --resource-group <resource-group-name>"

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    JohnWickXV
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 22, 2025

    It didn't work 1st time, it again went to deleting state only. After restarting the server it worked. Thank you for the solution. 

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