title: Adding Cluster Admin rights in Windows Server 2012
body: <p>I've been troubleshooting an issue all day on a windows server 2012 cluster.  2 nodes sit in 1 data centre, and a third node sits in a separate data centre.  The WSFC underlies a SQL Availability group configuration which is what I have been troubleshooting today, but have traced the issue to a need to set registerallproviderids to 0 on the cluster.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately I can't as I am being told I do not have administrative privileges on the cluster.  Exact error is:</p>
  
  <p>"Get-ClusterResource:  You do not have administrative privileges on the cluster.  Contact your network administrator to request access.  Access is denied"</p>
  
  <p>Which is pretty clear.  However I am a domain administrator, a local administrator on every node of the cluster.  I tried to explicitely add my login to the administrators role via cluster manager and I get the message:</p>
  
  <p>"Access to the cluster can be granted/denied only to domain users and groups.  Please use the security tab to remove the local users or groups."</p>
  
  <p>I assume this is coming from existing users as the account I am adding is definitely a domain account.  The administrators listed are:
  SYSTEM
  NETWORK SERVICE
  SQL service account on one of the nodes(node 2 oddly enough)
  Local Administrators(Also on node 2)
  MSDTC
  and 2 accounts which are SID's like "S-1-5-21......"</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone seen this before or can give me any idea of how to work around this?  This is a live cluster, so I can't take it offline or recreate it.</p>