Adding a Read Only User to Hyper-V Cluster / Access is denied

Question

I am trying to add a user with "read only" permissions on a Hyper-V cluster. I'm logged into one of the cluster host servers and I ran the following Powershell command:

Grant-ClusterAccess -User contoso\johnj99 -ReadOnly

I can look at the properties of the cluster, Cluster Permissions tab, and see the permissions I granted there. However, when I log into the same server as that user and open Failover Cluster Manager, I get an error that the user cannot connect with the message "You do not have administrative privileges on the cluster." with Error Code: 0x80070005 Access is denied.

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Hi,

After run the command above to grant the user read-only access, the read-only access user can connect to the cluster via PowerShell only. Attempting to connect with the Failover Cluster Manager will result in an error: Error Code: 0x80070005 Access is denied.

For more information, please review this link below:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/failover-clustering/powershell-for-failover-clustering-read-only-cluster-access/ba-p/371493#:~:text=Granting%20Read%20only%20Access%20to%20Cluster%201%20Open,have%20%22Read%22%20access%20and%20make%20sure...%20See%20More.

Answer 2

Hello,

So is there a way to grant read-only access to Failover Cluster Manager, or no?

Answer 3

Hi,

I'm afraid there is no GUI method.