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 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?

​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:ErrorThe operation has failed.An unexpected error has occurred.Error Code: 0x800702e4The 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 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?  Read More

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