I am an Admin on my PC... why doesn't my PC recognize me?

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Well, as always... let me begin with a some background information. I had an IIS server named "RahulServer" and everything was just fine. One fine day, when I was at my destructive best... I thought of playing around with some of the DCOM related settings and later found that as soon as I clicked on my (Local Computer) node in IIS Manager, it would throw me a prompt as soon as I clicked it.

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If I click on Cancel, it would throw me the following error message...

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The good thing was that if I provide my username and Password it would connect me correctly and show all the details as well. So, at least there was some hope that I haven't screwed up my box real bad Happy. Although, as you would expect it would need me to type my username and password each time I start IIS Manager. What a pain!!! Thankfully, the solution is pretty simple.

1. Click on Start->Run and type dcomcnfg
2. Right click on My Computer as shown below and click on Properties.

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3. Notice the Default Authentication Level is set to None. Change it to Connect and change Default Impersonation Level is Identify
4. Once you are done, click on Ok and re-open IIS Manager. 

You should be all set now!

Until next time Wave
-Rahul