The problem appears to be related to the very first warning in which the system tells us that our Windows account does not appear to have administrative access.

I have tried using the Built-In administrator and get the same message. We never get this message in any other OS instances.

This is then followed by a message that the Search Index is inaccessible (right after we select the location). Another message that is never received indicating that our account has not rights to write to the hard drive.

I have verified that our Windows account has rights to access and write to the specific location specified as the Repository (Index) location.

The final message we receive after bypassing all the previous messages is that the server could not initialize the Web-Based Enterprise Management for the WMI subsystem.

This is an error that no one has ever received before in the community and has not information associated with it, other than "Restart the Laserfiche Server" from the official help guides. We did repair WMI as suggested. I doubt this message is the real culprit though, I think the entire problem starts with the fact that the software determined our account does not have rights to something indicated in the very first warning. Without knowing what we do not have rights to though I have no idea where to start. We installed a fresh OS instance and have no problems.