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
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. He opened lusrmgr
He opened IIS Manager. No error. The tree of application pools, sites, and folders expanded like a mechanical flower. That was the problem
“Okay,” he muttered. “You want an administrator? I’ll give you an administrator.”
A sigh. “Ticket.”
Another sigh. Longer. “Hold.”