Access denied on "Configure service accounts"

Question

Just installed a standalone, developer's instance of Sharepoint 2010 on my Windows7 workstation per the instructions outlined in the MSDN article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx

When I try to click on the Configure service accounts link on Sharepoint Central Administration site, I get an access denied error.  My windows ID is local to the workstation and it has full administrator rights.  My Id is in the Farm Administrator's group plus the BUILTIN\Administrators group.  Why can't I access this link?  Everything else appears to working fine (still testing).

 

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Brent-GPTX

Answer 1

Bump.  Same issue.

Answer 2

Can you please try to run IE with elevated privileges (right click IE shortcut and select "Run as Administrator") and check if this resolves the issue ?

Answer 3

Not sure if this issue has been resolved. If running IE as administrator does not fix the issue, can you please try the below steps ?

Navigate to Control Panel --> System and Security --> Change User Account Control settings and drag the Slider down to Never Notify.  After the above change is done restart the system. Now run IE with elevated privileges and try again. Hope this resolves it.

Answer 4

I have the same issue here. The message says Access denied, the user that is currently logged in, and asks whether I want to login as someone else. The user is the local admin, who is also Farm Admin and Site Collection Admin. There is event log entry. In addition, I also get a slightly different "Access Denied" message when trying to deploy a solution.wsp. It has been added ok, but deployment will throw an exception. The event log states ID:6615, Access denied. No further explanation. The log identifies my Administrator account, which is the local admin, on a w7 box. Yes, I am running IE in elevated mode. Any ideas? Thx 

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Iko

Answer 5

After setting the UAC to never notify, it worked. That begs the question: Why? If I run IE as Administrator it should run elevated - should not make a difference whether notify is on or off. Or is something run outside of IE that would trigger the notification which in turn cannot be displayed.... ?

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Iko

Answer 6

I'm accessing CA remotely (works on many other instances I'm using).  And I'm getting access denied.  On my desktop (where I'm logging in from) I have the UAC set to Never Notify.  Still no solution.  Any other settings that can affect this?

Answer 7

Hi,

I was experiencing this issue too and the workarounds proposed in this article were not successful.
By reading this article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678863.aspx

I found an interesting part where it is explained that you have to add your SP admin to the local administrators group of your SP server(s).

Then I could access the service account directly without any issues.

Regards,

Answer 8

run as administrator works in server2013. why do you have to do this. what a piece of junk.