Upon installation, Geo Web Publisher and the ProjectWise Geospatial Management Integration Server's Background Map publishing engine spawn creation of 2 user groups:
Geo Web Publisher Administrators
Geo Web Publisher Power Users
Membership for a given user within these groups will define the level of access to the publishing server components.
Membership within the Geo Web Publisher Administrators group alone, will not suffice to allow full configuration of the server components and these users should also be added to the local machine Administrators group: