LeslieBNS9
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We ran into this same problem attempting to P2V 2012 and 2012 R2 servers. The account I was using had local admin, domain admin, enterprise admin, administrators group privileges with UAC disabled and still I was getting the "Permission to perform this operation was denied" error with "Must be administrator to access physical computer" in the log.

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Finally I found a work around. On the machine I was converting I changed the Local Security Policy setting for "User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode" to Disabled. I was then able to P2V the server. After the P2V I changed the setting back.

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Another work around I had was to simply use the local "Administrator" account or run the converter from the server I'm P2Ving.

- Leslie