He tried the obvious first: right-click, “Run as administrator.” UAC prompt. He clicked “Yes.” Same error. The machine laughed at him.
He clicked “Start” on the Default Web Site. Green triangle. “Running.”
The error message glared on the screen:
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.
Jamal leaned back in his chair, staring at the grey dialog box like it had personally insulted him. He was a developer, not a system admin. His job was to write clean React components, not wrestle with Windows permissions on a Friday at 4:47 PM. you must be an administrator to use iis manager windows 10
Then he closed IIS Manager, opened VS Code, and swore never to speak of the dark arts again.
whoami /groups | findstr “S-1-5-32-544” He tried the obvious first: right-click, “Run as
Jamal smiled. He had become, for one fleeting moment, an administrator.