You Must Be An Administrator To Use Iis Manager Windows 10 Review

Five minutes passed. He could hear keyboard clacking. “Jamal, I’ve added your AD account to the local ‘IIS_IUSRS’ and ‘Performance Log Users’ groups. Reboot, then try whoami /groups . You should see S-1-5-32-544 — that’s the Administrators alias.”

He opened IIS Manager. No error. The tree of application pools, sites, and folders expanded like a mechanical flower. you must be an administrator to use iis manager windows 10

He opened lusrmgr.msc . His user, jamal_dev , was in the Users group. Not Administrators . That was the problem. His IT department, in its infinite wisdom, had stripped local admin rights from every developer after the SolarWinds scare. Five minutes passed

He picked up his phone. Called Helen in IT. Reboot, then try whoami /groups

He tried the obvious first: right-click, “Run as administrator.” UAC prompt. He clicked “Yes.” Same error. The machine laughed at him.

Jamal smiled. He had become, for one fleeting moment, an administrator.