{"id":729,"date":"2013-09-17T14:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2015-08-03T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T16:00:23","slug":"this-setup-requires-administrator-privileges-for-configuring-iis-virtual-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/this-setup-requires-administrator-privileges-for-configuring-iis-virtual-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"This setup requires Administrator privileges for configuring IIS Virtual Roots."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this error &#8220;This setup requires Administrator privileges for configuring IIS Virtual Roots.&#8221; when attempting to install some software on a work development machine. Although I had admin rights and all permissions to install this app it failed with the above error.<\/p>\n<p>To save on time getting support to sort it all out (and obviously should not be done if you don&#8217;t have the permission to do this) found that I could alter a registry setting the DisableUserInstalls value to 0 in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Installer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this error &#8220;This setup requires Administrator privileges for configuring IIS Virtual Roots.&#8221; when attempting to install some software on a work development machine. Although I had admin rights and all permissions to install this app it failed with the above error. To save on time getting support to sort it all out (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}