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

The error message glared on the screen:

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.

Then he closed IIS Manager, opened VS Code, and swore never to speak of the dark arts again. you must be an administrator to use iis manager windows 10

“Okay,” he muttered. “You want an administrator? I’ll give you an administrator.”

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. The error message glared on the screen: Jamal

He clicked “Start” on the Default Web Site. Green triangle. “Running.”

Another sigh. Longer. “Hold.”

He rebooted. Logged back in. Opened PowerShell.