Kill other users process in Task Manager "Access Denied" Server 2019

Question

I need the ability to kill processes of other users on my RDS server. When I try this I receive the error message "Access denied" which implies I don't have the rights. I can kill my own processes but not other users. I have tried this both as domain administrator and local administrator and receive the same error. I can disconnect and sign off other users but I can't kill individual processes. I have also tried this using the command line taskkill command, same error. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi,

Yes, my u1 is a standard domain user without domain administrator privileges.

Does the issue occurs on all processes? Could the domain admin kill processes like notepad, calculate of the standard users?

Please use domain admin account to locally log onto the server and then run command prompt as administrator.
Input command"taskkill /f /PID processID" to try again.


If this still does not work, you can run "gpresult /h gpresult.htm" to export the group policy and check if any security policy was set to limit the domain account's permission.

Or if no special policy, you might need to capture some dumps or traces to further investigate the issue, which I suggest to contact Microsoft Customer Support and Services where more in-depth investigation can be done so that you would get a more satisfying explanation and solution to this issue.

You may find phone number for your region accordingly from the link below:
Global Customer Service phone numbers
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4051701/global-customer-service-phone-numbers

Thanks,
Eleven

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Answer 2

Hi,

Please use command to kill the individual process. In my test lab, it succeeded.

1. Use domain administrator to run CMD, and input "tasklist /s servername" to list all the processes running on the RDS server.
   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/tasklist
2. Then type "taskkill /s servername /PID processID" to kill the specific process
   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/taskkill

Thanks,
Eleven

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Answer 3

Thank you for your reply but as I stated in my question I have already tried this method. I have tried using the servername, IP address, my own login that has administrator privileges, domain admin and also local built in administrator credentials. I have tried using the process name and the process ID.

Again, these all work for processes that I start but I cannot kill processes of other users.

Answer 4

Hi,

Thanks for your explanation. Since in my test lab, I can successfully terminated a user's process with the command or even in the task manager with domain administrator account, there might be some permission issue on your domain administrator account.

Can you please create a new domain administrator account to have a try again?

Thanks,
Eleven

Answer 5

Okay I created another domain admin and still the same issue. Keep in mind this is on my Remote Desktop Server, not sure if your test included that. Here is the exact error message.

One other thing to note... When I am logged in as my new domain admin test user I can kill my own processes and also the normal domain admin processes... but I can't kill the processes of non-admins.