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RobinCM
Brass Contributor
Jun 28, 2024

Failover Cluster Manager error when not running as administrator (on a PAW)

I've finally been trying (hard) to use a PAW, where the user I'm signed into the PAW as does NOT have local admin privileges on that machine, but DOES have admin privileges on the servers I'm trying to manage.

 

Most recent hiccup is that Failover Cluster Manager aka cluadmin.msc doesn't seem to work properly if you don't have admin privileges on the machine where you're running it from. Obviously on a PAW your server admin account is NOT supposed to be an admin on the PAW itself, you're just a standard user.

 

The error I get when opening Failover Cluster Manager is as follows:

Error

The operation has failed.

An unexpected error has occurred.

Error Code: 0x800702e4

The requested operation requires elevation.

[OK]

 

Which is nice. I've never tried to run cluadmin as a non-admin, because historically everyone always just ran everything as a domain admin (right?) so you were an admin on everything. But this is not so in the land of PAW.

 

I've run cluadmin on a different machine where I am a local admin, and it works fine. I do not need to run it elevated to make it work properly, it just works. e.g. open PowerShell, cluadmin <enter>. PowerShell has NOT been opened via "Run as administrator" (aka UAC).

 

I've tried looking for some kind of access denied message via procmon but can't see anything obvious (to my eyes anyway). A different person on a different PAW has the same thing.

 

Is anyone successfully able to run Failover Cluster Manager on a machine where you're just a standard user?

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      Robin_CM
      Copper Contributor
      No. Still not able to use most of the functionality of Cluster Manager on a PAW. I think this needs somebody with better access to Microsoft support to log it and hope for a resolution.

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