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Copper Contributor

Mar 31, 2021

Windows Admin Center Access Denied

Greetings, 2 days ago I installed WAC on my desktop Win 10 (1909). I was using Edge and added just a couple servers to monitor while I test this product. This morning I fired it up in Edge and right...

Mathieu_Desjardins

Brass Contributor

Feb 16, 2023

Hi, I do not know if this thread is still valid but I have the same problem on my Windows Server 2019. I just installed version 2211 and now I have the same error message. It was working good with the previous installed version on the same server. When trying to open the console using an InPrivate Windows (Microsoft Edge) and using credentials that are admin on the server, it is opening without the error.
Any clues?

**Edit** In fact, it seem that landing on the All Connections page is causing some issues. If I am landing on Server Connections there is no issues.

AndreasM1976

Copper Contributor

Feb 16, 2023

Mathieu_Desjardins Try the fix that is in this thread, making your user part of the local admin group during installation and first start of the tool. You can then remove the account from the local admin group. Amazing that the same issue is still there to this day. I really liked this WAC but it would be nice if it worked as well.