Windows Admin Center Access Denied

BF 21

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 after I see the short list of Servers followed with the following error:

I've tried Chrome, uninstalled, rebooted, and re-installed with no change.

Please advise.
Thanks

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Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP

2021-03-31T14:41:12.37+00:00

Might be a known issue.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/support/known-issues#role-based-access-control-rbac

also note the official WAC forum over here.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-admin-center/bd-p/WindowsServerManagement

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BF 21 Reputation points

2021-03-31T14:47:24.11+00:00

Ahh thank you for pointing me to the correct forum. I'll discuss this there.
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Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP

2021-03-31T14:51:11.917+00:00

Sounds good, you're welcome.

B-F 96 Reputation points

2021-04-01T12:46:38.407+00:00

I posted on the forum you suggested and no response. I'm not quite following what you mean that this might be a known issue. I'm not using RBAC like the link suggested.

Blows my mind something that worked for 2 days now suddenly it's worthless. Nothing new installed that I'm aware of but who knows what goes behind the scenes these days.

Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP

2021-04-01T13:04:25.537+00:00

I'd check you have the latest release.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/support/release-history

and some know issues and trouble shooting here.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/support/known-issues

B-F 96 Reputation points

2021-04-01T13:41:54.9+00:00

Yes, it is the latest version 2103. Most of the troubleshooting listed does not apply. The one thing that was suggested was to uninstall, delete a folder and try again. I tried that yesterday and now today again.

Sequence of events before it fails.

Launch Edge

go to localhost:6516

The first time launched after the install, it prompts for cert selection. Select the one and only one that is associated with Windows Admin Center. This was also prewarned would happen during the install.

It goes through normal startup of WAC and I actually do see my own PC on the list for maybe a second.

Right after that, the same error that I posted comes up.

Did I mention it was working just fine a couple days ago? :)

Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP

2021-04-01T13:47:50.107+00:00

You can add this as feedback here on uservoice.
https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/295071-management-tools?category_id=319162

Hopefully Jeff or one of the WAC team will reply to your thread here.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-admin-center/windows-admin-center-access-denied/m-p/2247117

B-F 96 Reputation points

2021-04-01T13:53:20.867+00:00

Thanks for trying. May start looking at alternatives....

Nagios
Prometheus.
etc
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