“Helen. It’s Jamal. I need local admin rights on DEV-WS-042.”
Jamal smiled. He had become, for one fleeting moment, an administrator.
“Okay,” he muttered. “You want an administrator? I’ll give you an administrator.” you must be an administrator to use iis manager windows 10
He opened IIS Manager. No error. The tree of application pools, sites, and folders expanded like a mechanical flower.
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. “Helen
He rebooted. Logged back in. Opened PowerShell.
He tried the obvious first: right-click, “Run as administrator.” UAC prompt. He clicked “Yes.” Same error. The machine laughed at him. He had become, for one fleeting moment, an administrator
Then he closed IIS Manager, opened VS Code, and swore never to speak of the dark arts again.