Windows error 0x80070522, -2147023582

Remove-WindowsFeature error "Required privilege not held"

Okay team, I'm trying to remove the Powershell 2.0 Core engine from my server using the command below: Remove-WindowsFeature PowerShell-v2 The error we get is: A required privilege is not held by the client. Error: 0x80070522 DeviceError: (@(Vhd=; Credent...Name=localhost};PSObject) FullyQualifiedErrorID: Error_Populating_Parents_For_CBS_Update,Microsot.Windows.ServerManager.Commands And it returns the error "Required privilege not held [...] read more

Windows 8.1 0x80070522 error on secondary drive

I need urgent help somehow suddenly something changed permissions and maybe ownership on my secondary drive and right now I can't save or copy anything there. I checked permissions and the Authenticated User had no rights so I changed it back to the right permissions. But it didn't solved the [...] read more

How can I get around "error 0x80070522" when creating files in the root of the C drive (C:\)?

One of our customers has just found a problem when trying to create a file on the root of the C Drive (C:\), on a Windows 7 Professional PC. I know they shouldn't be keeping files here, but there is a valid reason in this case, so I've relaxed the [...] read more

Enable-Bitlocker -TpmProtector via GPO does not work (0x80070522)

I am trying to automate the bitlocker in our corporate environment. I have written a script which enables the bitlocker and it works fine if I run it manually, but whenever I implement it via GPO (startup script) right after Enable-BitLocker -MountPoint C:\ -EncryptionMethod XtsAes256 -SkipHardwareTest -UsedSpaceOnly -TpmProtector I see [...] read more

Cannot write to Windows to Go root directory

I have a Windows to Go drive that I'd also like to use as a normal flash drive. However, I can't move files to the root directory, or copy files there. Attempting to do so produces this error: > An unexpected error is keeping you from creating the file. If [...] read more

Creating a file on disk partition gives error message

My Windows 7 is on an SSD disk, and I have HDD disk from old Windows XP divided into several partitions. When I try to create a file on one of those partitions H:, it gives me an error: > 0x80070522 A required privilege is not held by the client. [...] read more

Why does the Microsoft Ecosystem Metadata Exchange require Administrator elevation on Windows 10?

Using the "Microsoft Ecosystem Metadata Exchange (EMX)" tool (which is the tool you use to register your application for Windows Error Reporting), attempting to scan any file logs the following message to the "Application Log" system log: Message : [Microsoft.Telemetry.MetadataExchange.SystemFileMetadataProvider: 56593614]: Unable to scan the given file due to the [...] read more

Visual Studio 2017 Performance Profiler: A required privilege is not held by the client

I'm trying to run the Performance Profiler wizard on a sample app I have (something I'm using for a demo -- it just counts words in a text file. The app works fine.). I have the thing in Release mode, and I've gone through the wizard. But when it starts [...] read more

Getting error when trying to retrieve a security Descriptor from a Win32_Service class

I'm trying to retrieve the security descriptor of a Win32 Service. For that, I'm doing, in PowerShell, $sd = (Get-WmiObject -class Win32_Service | ?{$_.Name -like "dummyservice"}).GetSecurityDescriptor() Thing is, $sd.Descriptor is $null, and $sd.ReturnValue is 0x80070522, which translates to "a required privilege is not held by the client" I'm running all [...] read more

windows update error 0x80070522 trying to update the OS using downloaded .exe, more info below:

I am trying to install windows update on my PC. It is a windows 10 64-bit Lenovo yoga. I download an exe off of this site https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 I for some reason download and install it almost the entire way when the error comes up. I looked up the error and [...] read more

How do I fix a weird security error on an old local drive?

Context: I used a hard disk as my Windows installation disk until I finally upgraded to a solid state drive. I now use my old local drive as drive G: for extra storage. I did not format it because it contained valuable data, and I don't have the extra storage [...] read more

Windows 7 can't write to root of non-system drive

> Possible Duplicate: > Creating file on disk partition gives 0x80070522 I have my C: drive which is an SSD, and an F: drive which is a 500GB hard drive. I cannot write to the root of the hard drive, unless elevated as an administrator. The error code is: 0x80070522: [...] read more

error 0x80070522. not able to create a file in c:\ directory

> Possible Duplicate: > Create files on C:\ root gives error 0x80070522 Hello Everybody... "error 0x80070522. not able to create a file in c:\ directory" One of our customers has just found a problem when trying to create a file on the root of the C:\ Drive, on a Windows [...] read more

How to fix "COMException: A required privilege is not held by the client" error in C#?

I'm working on remote computer control by WMI using C#. I can connect after I have made the necessary settings on the remote computer. There is no problem so far. But when I shut down a remote computer with the Win32ShutDown command, after reboot the remote computer I received the [...] read more

ERROR: PrepareVirtualHardDisk: AttachVirtualDisk failed with error 0x80070522

I followed this tutorial to create a basic image of Windows IOT Core: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/iot/create-a-basic-image I run IoTCorePShell.cmd as an administrator. All the previous steps was successful, but I encountered an error while running this step: New-IoTFFUImage ProductA Test (or) buildimage ProductA Test Here the errors: PS C:\MyWorkspace>New-IoTFFUImage ProductA Test ADK_VERSION [...] read more

A requested privilege is not held by client (Apache2 + WebDAV)

This is driving me crazy. I have a Apache2 server with WebDAV enabled on my Debian Wheezy server. I can access it and read from it and it appears to be running correctly. From my Windows 7 laptop I am running a software called NetDrive2 that mounts a network drive [...] read more

Create symlink with Web Application using IIS 7.5

I want to create symlinks with a web application which is running in IIS 7.5. However during the creation the following error message appears: A required privilege is not held by the client. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070522) System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80070522): A required privilege is not held by the client. (Exception from [...] read more