“Helen. It’s Jamal. I need local admin rights on DEV-WS-042.”
whoami /groups | findstr “S-1-5-32-544”
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.
He picked up his phone. Called Helen in IT. “Helen
He tried the obvious first: right-click, “Run as administrator.” UAC prompt. He clicked “Yes.” Same error. The machine laughed at him.
A sigh. “Ticket.”
“It’s Friday. The CEO wants a demo of the claims dashboard Monday morning. I can’t even start IIS.”
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. He was a developer, not a system admin
He rebooted. Logged back in. Opened PowerShell.