WWSAPI samples in Windows 7 SDK for RC: "Unable to add URL to HTTP URL group."

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I like to build and run with UAC on.  When running the HttpCalculatorService example I got this error: 

 Failure: errorCode=0x80070005
Unable to add URL to HTTP URL group.
Access is denied.

Running from an administrator command prompt I do not get the error!

Obviously I do not have permissions to something.  Some investigation revealed that I need to add the user I wanted to run as to the urlacl (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc307223(vs.85).aspx)

So this is the command that allowd me to run (replace myDOMAIN\myUSERNAME with the domain and user you wish to run the Service under): netsh http add urlacl url=https://+:80/example user=myDOMAIN\myUSERNAME.

To do this in code you could use this API: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364503(VS.85).aspx but the code your are running would need to have the necessary permissions so you are in kind of a chicken and the egg situation!

Drop me a comment and let me know if this helped you please!