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 rebooted. Logged back in. Opened PowerShell.
A sigh. “Ticket.”
He checked the clock. 4:52 PM. IT’s official hours ended at 5:00.
The error message glared on the screen:
He opened IIS Manager. No error. The tree of application pools, sites, and folders expanded like a mechanical flower.
“Helen. It’s Jamal. I need local admin rights on DEV-WS-042.” you must be an administrator to use iis manager windows 10
He clicked “Start” on the Default Web Site. Green triangle. “Running.”
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 leaned back in his chair, staring at