There is this control in Windoze environments known as 'permissions'. They control access to resources on a windoze system, be it a workstation, server, application ... whatever.
Many permissions are implemented via a device called an "account".
Sometimes permissions are involved in software devices called "access control lists".
Other times permissions are associated with specific roles assigned to the job environment.
Regardless, without those permission required to do the job your efforts to perform required tasks will be thwarted in a Windoze environment.
They were originally intended to facilitate operation by known individuals in an enterprise to the exclusion of all others.
If you are given a job without permissions to use the resources required for that job, you cannot do anything because the controls required will be unavailable.
There are work environments where people are assigned tasks then not provided permissions to access those resources required to do the job.
Add to that the ramp up training and necessary documentation reading and time gets sucked up like a black hole. You have committed your life to the project only to find out you were doomed from the start.
Such is the nature of the beast in some work enviornments.
It is not possible to overcome job assignments which lack adequate permissions without the intervention of another of sufficient authority to grant those permissions required to do the job.