I have been recently trying to convert my Physical server to a Virtual Machine. Specifically my Routing and Remote Access server that serves up L2TP connections. I've been able to do so but the role never seems to work correctly when I boot up the new virtual server (service doesn't start, Nic's act unexpectedly). So instead of trying to migrave from Physical to Virtual I just made a new VM and installed Server 2012 standard. Instead of having to manually rebuild the role I'd like to try to export the Role and settings (for the RRAS role only) in powershell and create it on the new server by importing. I've read a lot of tutorials on this but it only seems to cover exporting ALL roles and features. In this case I really want to only export my Routing and Remote Access role with configuration.
I've used powershell to get a list of my roles, and I know how to export them all, just not the Remote Access. Here's what I get when I run Get-WindowsFeature | where { $_.Installed -eq $True} | select displayname, name
DisplayName Name
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File and Storage Services FileAndStorage-Services
Storage Services Storage-Services
Remote Access RemoteAccess
DirectAccess and VPN (RAS) DirectAccess-VPN
Web Server (IIS) Web-Server
Web Server Web-WebServer
Common HTTP Features Web-Common-Http
Default Document Web-Default-Doc
Directory Browsing Web-Dir-Browsing
HTTP Errors Web-Http-Errors
Static Content Web-Static-Content
Health and Diagnostics Web-Health
HTTP Logging Web-Http-Logging
Performance Web-Performance
Static Content Compression Web-Stat-Compression
Security Web-Security
Request Filtering Web-Filtering
IP and Domain Restrictions Web-IP-Security
Management Tools Web-Mgmt-Tools
IIS Management Console Web-Mgmt-Console
IIS Management Scripts and Tools Web-Scripting-Tools
.NET Framework 4.5 Features NET-Framework-45-Features
.NET Framework 4.5 NET-Framework-45-Core
WCF Services NET-WCF-Services45
TCP Port Sharing NET-WCF-TCP-PortSharing45
Group Policy Management GPMC
RAS Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK) CMAK
Remote Server Administration Tools RSAT
Role Administration Tools RSAT-Role-Tools
Remote Access Management Tools RSAT-RemoteAccess
Remote Access GUI and Command-Line Tools RSAT-RemoteAccess-Mgmt
Remote Access module for Windows PowerShell RSAT-RemoteAccess-PowerShell
SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support FS-SMB1
User Interfaces and Infrastructure User-Interfaces-Infra
Graphical Management Tools and Infrastructure Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra
Server Graphical Shell Server-Gui-Shell
Windows Internal Database Windows-Internal-Database
Windows PowerShell PowerShellRoot
Windows PowerShell 4.0 PowerShell
Windows PowerShell ISE PowerShell-ISE
WoW64 Support WoW64-Support
Exporting and importing the roles isn't the problem, just specifically exporting the roles I need, in this case I think it's Remote Access, DirectAccess and VPN (RAS), and maybe some of the RSAT roles.
Am I going about this the right way? Is there a better way to move my role and configuration? I'm sort of a PowerShell noob and plan on trying to work as much as possible in it instead of the way I'm used to (GUI).
Get-WindowsFeature | where { ($_.Installed -eq $True) -and (($_.name -like "RemoteAccess") -or ($_.name -like "DirectAccess*") -or ($_.name -like "RSAT*"))} | select displayname, name– Jonathon Anderson Nov 4 '17 at 18:29