You don't have administrator privileges on the server

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_{Tuesday, September 1, 2015 7:26 AM | 1 vote}

While creating failover cluster on Windows 2012 R2 server and getting error "you don't have administrator privileges on the server"I have tried :

1) Rejoining machine to domain

2) Installed all windows update on machine and domain 

Still the issue is there.. 

Please help as early as possible.. 

thanks in adv 

Nilesh Savant

All replies (17)

_{Monday, September 14, 2015 6:02 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Nilesh,

I don't encounter this error message with a domain admin account when I am testing in my lab.

I suggest you log off then log back on to test.

If the issue persists, please use another domain admin account to see whether it works.

In addition, ensure that the account currently logged on is a member of local administrators on the server named STAF12R2CVM2.winvm.com.

Best Regards,

Amy

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_{Wednesday, September 2, 2015 9:45 AM | 1 vote}

Hi Nilesh,

Based on my research, to successfully create a cluster, either the installer must have the privileges needed to create computer objects in the default container for computers, or a computer object must be pre-created by a domain administrator.

More information for you:

Rights needed for user account to create a Cluster Name Object (CNO) on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2010/06/02/rights-needed-for-user-account-to-create-a-cluster-name-object-cno-on-windows-server-2008-r2-failover-cluster.aspx

How to Troubleshoot Create Cluster failures in Windows Server 2012

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/05/07/10301709.aspx

Best Regards,

Amy

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_{Wednesday, September 2, 2015 9:47 AM}

While creating failover cluster on Windows 2012 R2 server and getting error "you don't have administrator privileges on the server"I have tried :

1) Rejoining machine to domain

2) Installed all windows update on machine and domain 

Still the issue is there.. 

Please help as early as possible.. 

thanks in adv 

Nilesh Savant

Amy's answer is correct regarding MSCS, also confirm you have admin rights to the server as well.

_{Wednesday, September 2, 2015 11:52 AM}

my issue is not resolved after doing above settings

My domain is of W2k12 R2

tell me what settings I can do on domain to resolve this ?

Nilesh Savant

_{Thursday, September 3, 2015 5:50 AM}

Nilesh Savant

_{Thursday, September 3, 2015 5:51 AM}

just to add in question.. Am getting this error in system selection page only ..

Please take look at captured image..and help me out

Nilesh Savant

_{Monday, September 14, 2015 2:06 AM}

Hi Nilesh,

Firstly, please run command whoami to confirm that the current logged on user is a domain administrator.

After that, ensure the server’s local administrators group does contain the Domain Admins group.

Best Regards,

Amy

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_{Monday, September 14, 2015 5:26 AM}

yes it is there..

Nilesh Savant

_{Wednesday, December 13, 2017 8:14 PM}

Thanks for posting and asking this question

I am having this exact same issue. I tried everything that has been suggested in this thread and same result. 

I've been looking in different forums and I can't find a single post confirming that they were able to overcome the problem.

Did you finally get this resolved? How?

_{Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:40 AM | 3 votes}

Check your time service on both nodes, sync with DC. 

_{Monday, April 9, 2018 7:37 AM}

i'm facing the same error on windows 2012R2 too

_{Sunday, April 15, 2018 1:47 PM}

Nilesh Savant

Did you check DNS ??

_{Tuesday, April 24, 2018 7:03 PM | 1 vote}

That was exactly the issue I was facing. After syncing time with DC I was able to join a new node to a cluster. Thank you.

MCSA Windows Server 2012 MCSE Productivity MS Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

_{Friday, January 4, 2019 6:55 AM}

Hi,

I got the same issue in windows 2012 R2 before.
Allow me to share my experiences.

1. Ensure the server’s administrators group contains the domain admin account
2. Use Full computer name with domain for adding new node. 
   (E.g. Full computer name: mypc.mydc  ,  Domain: mydc)

Regards,
Gibson

_{Saturday, May 11, 2019 3:42 PM}

I got same issue also. I can add the server named Server1 that I am logged onto but not my other 2 servers, Server2 and Server3. Then I can log onto Server2 and can add that server to the cluster but not Server1 that I just logged off of. I am running Windows 2012 Datacenter editions on my servers.

_{Tuesday, October 15, 2019 9:00 AM}

Thanks Thomas.....

This worked for me.

Regards,

Chendur P

_{Saturday, December 14, 2019 7:58 AM}

Thanks Dear Thomas..

problem :you do not have administrative priviliges on the server 

Solutions that i have tried.

rejoin domain

reinstall cluster roles on all nodes

permission added on all computers and users but issue was still same.

resolved after change time zone as exact to Domain controller.