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Event ID 10016: The … permission settings do not grant … … permission for the COM Server application with CLSID

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The … permission settings do not grant … … permission for the COM Server application with CLSID

Event 10016
DistributedCOM
System log
Warning

An application asked to start or use a DCOM component without the permission to do so.

What to check: Microsoft documents these as expected and safe to ignore in most cases on current Windows; only investigate if a specific feature is broken.
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them) 
The … permission settings do not grant … … permission for the COM Server application with CLSID 
…
 and APPID 
…
 to the user …\… SID (…) from address … running in the application container … SID (…). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.