windows 10 - Application-specific Permission Settings

On a Windows 10 Pro system with all the latest patches I'm getting a lot of errors with Event Id 10016. An example:

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  The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local
  Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
  {D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160} and APPID
  {9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276} to the user COLOSSUS\Slacker
  SID (S-1-5-21-550145320-736483266-2972815005-1001) from address
  LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container
  Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be
  modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

  
  

I've come across advice that directs me to use regedit to change the permissions on the items with corresponding keys. When I try to do that, I'm denied the ability to make changes.

Also, the permissions dialog has an entry I've never seen before when it comes up, listing an "Account Unknown(S-1-15-3...". I can't remove that account, either.

Question: How do I go about changing the permissions to eliminate the 10016 errors, or is it okay to ignore them?

Note: I don't remember seeing them crop up until relatively recently (e.g., perhaps after the Spring 2018 update).

Answer

As per Microsoft, you should just ignore these 10016 Event IDs and it is not recommended to try to fix through manipulating security of objects and such to circumvent as these occur by design. In the Workaround section there's an XML filtering query method for advanced users to suppress.

Safely Ignore these Event IDs 10016

The specific points and to those points per the vendor Microsoft for
the 10016 Event
ID.
. .

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  "These events can be safely ignored because they do not adversely
  affect functionality and are by design. This is the recommend action
  for these events."

  
  

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  "You can also work around this issue by modifying the permissions on DCOM components to prevent this error from being logged. However,
  we
  do not recommend this method because these errors do not adversely
  affect functionality and modifying the permissions can have unintended
  side effects."

  
  

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Symptoms

_{Applies to: Windows Server version 1803, Windows 10 version
1803, Windows 10 version 1709, Windows 10 Version 1703, Windows 10
Version 1607, Windows Server 2016 Standard, Windows Server 2016
Datacenter, Windows Server 2016 Standard edition Nano Server
installation option, Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition Nano
Server installation option, Windows Server 2016 Essentials}

Application-specific Permission Settings Related Events

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Event ID:      10016
Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission
for the COM Server application with CLSID {D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160} and APPID
{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276} to the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM SID (S-1-5-18) from
address LocalHost (using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable).
This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

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Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission
for the COM Server application with CLSID {260EB9DE-5CBE-4BFF-A99A-3710AF55BF1E} and APPID
{260EB9DE-5CBE-4BFF-A99A-3710AF55BF1E} to the user machine\user SID (S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxx)
from address LocalHost (using LRPC) running in the application container
Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost_10.0.14393.726_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
SID (S-1-15-2-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx).
This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

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Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission
for the COM Server application with CLSID {6B3B8D23-FA8D-40B9-8DBD-B950333E2C52} and APPID
{4839DDB7-58C2-48F5-8283-E1D1807D0D7D} to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19)
from address LocalHost (using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable).
This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

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Cause

These 10016 events are recorded when Microsoft components tries to
access DCOM components without the required permissions. In this case,
this is expected and by design.

A coding pattern has been implemented where the code first tries to
access the DCOM components with one set of parameters. If the first
attempt is unsuccessful, it tries again with another set of
parameters. The reason why it does not skip the first attempt is
because there are scenarios where it can succeed. In those
scenarios, that is preferable.

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Workaround

These events can be safely ignored because they do not adversely affect functionality and are by design. This is the recommend action
for these events.

If desired, advanced users and IT professionals can suppress these
events from view in the Event Viewer by creating a filter and manually
editing the filter’s XML query similar to the following:

  
    *
    
      *[System[(EventID=10016)]]
      and
      *[EventData[
        (
          Data[@Name='param4'] and Data='{D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}' and
          Data[@Name='param5'] and Data='{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}'
        )
        or
        (
          Data[@Name='param4'] and Data='{260EB9DE-5CBE-4BFF-A99A-3710AF55BF1E}' and
          Data[@Name='param5'] and Data='{260EB9DE-5CBE-4BFF-A99A-3710AF55BF1E}'
        )
        or
        (
          Data[@Name='param4'] and Data='{C2F03A33-21F5-47FA-B4BB-156362A2F239}' and
          Data[@Name='param5'] and Data='{316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97}'
        )
        or
        (
          Data[@Name='param4'] and Data='{6B3B8D23-FA8D-40B9-8DBD-B950333E2C52}' and
          Data[@Name='param5'] and Data='{4839DDB7-58C2-48F5-8283-E1D1807D0D7D}'
        )
        or
        (
          Data[@Name='param4'] and Data='{C2F03A33-21F5-47FA-B4BB-156362A2F239}' and
          Data[@Name='param5'] and Data='{316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97}'
        )
      ]]
    
  

In this query, param4 corresponds to the COM Server application CLSID
and param5 corresponds to the APPID which are recorded in the 10016
event logs.

For more information about manually constructing Event Viewer queries,
see Advanced XML filtering in the Windows Event
Viewer.

You can also work around this issue by modifying the permissions on DCOM components to prevent this error from being logged. However, we
do not recommend this method because these errors do not adversely
affect functionality and modifying the permissions can have unintended
side effects.

Source