Visual Studio 2013. You do not have sufficient privilege to access IIS web sites on your machine

Question

I just installed VS2013 and turned on IIS 7 on my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine. When trying to open a solution I get:

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Answer 1

On Windows 10 running Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, here are the steps I followed:

1. Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows Features on or off... inside that, we had to select Internet Information Services -> Web Management Tools -> IIS 6 Management Compatibility -> IIS Metabse and IIS 6 configuration compatibility.

2. select "Troubleshoot Program" check "The program requires additional permissions" click "Next", click "Test the program..." wait for the program to launch click "Next" select "Yes, save these settings for this program" click "Close"

3. Go to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv. Click config folder. You will get a popup - "You don't have access to this folder - Click continue to permanently get access to this folder". Perform same for Export folder which is inside config folder.

Then it finally got past the permission issue.