Windows Server's "Components Services" and "Regedit" permissions are grayed out for my Admin Account

Question

I am working with Developers who are using TFS to do their work and they suddenly get authentication error when they are connecting to TFS remotely through Visual Studio.
When I checked Event Viewer, this is the error I am getting.
"The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {000C101C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} and
APPID {000C101C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} to the user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE SID (S-1-5-20) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC).
This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool."
By checking through the "component services" to edit the permissions, I found that they were grayed out.
I moved to "regedit" next to try to enable the permissions from there, went to edit those keys....
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\{000C101C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{000C101C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
And found that it was not giving me access to edit it !!
What is the fix for this issue ?

Answer 1

There will be another similar event logged at a similar time, which you will need to correct, but first you need to adjust the Registry permissions for this {000C101C-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} [MSIserver] COM problem.
It's similar to these [SharePoint] errors: grant yourself/admins permission to this key, then you can apply the needed corrections via Component Services admin tool for the TFS/VS COM problem.
http://blog.msvconsultancy.co.uk/2012/08/fixing-sharepoint-dcom-error-10016/
https://kb4sp.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/fixing-the-dcom-error-the-application-specific-permission-settings-do-not-grant-local-activation-permission-for-the-com-server-application-with-clsid/
Don
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