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Your's is the most comprehensive question so I will provide my input here.
From my testing in Windows Server 2012 R2, I can restore this functionality without rebooting by doing the following:
Restart w3svc
Restart sstpsvc
Unfortunately you have to force the restart of sstpsvc, which also requires Routing and Remote Access to restart, effectively ...
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