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 smiled. He had become, for one fleeting moment, an administrator. you must be an administrator to use iis manager windows 10
whoami /groups | findstr “S-1-5-32-544” He opened lusrmgr
But here he was. The company’s legacy ASP.NET app had to be tested locally. And IIS Manager wouldn’t budge. He opened lusrmgr.msc . His user
“It’s Friday. The CEO wants a demo of the claims dashboard Monday morning. I can’t even start IIS.”
He clicked “Start” on the Default Web Site. Green triangle. “Running.”