Back to a very technical post. Let's suppose you've just finished a new installation of SharePoint 2007 on a new Windows 2008 server. However, the first time you try to run the command line STSADM tool, you get an "Access Denied" message.
You will probably try some or all of these things to troubleshoot:
- confirm that you have local administrator access
- confirm you have farm admin rights
- confirm SQL permissions are at least dbo
- check the SharePoint version/patch number
- check the environment path variable and make sure you can find the righ version of the executable in the 12 hive.
All good steps -- but that's not the fix. You'll want to disable User Account Control in Windows 2008. (It's the same interface that gives you those "A program needs your permission to continue" prompts in Windows Vista.)
In Windows Server 2008, navigate to Control Panel | Users | Turn User Account Control On or Off. Turn this function off and reboot.
Leaving UAC off is less secure, so for maximum security you may want to leave UAC on agfter you have finished using STSADM.
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