February 2009 Entries
When attempting to install applications on Windows Server 2008, even though the user account is part of the administrator group, you will receive an error stating as follows:
"Administrator privileges are required to install a web application"
This is due to the fact that being part of the Local Administrator Group doesn't provide the same access as the Local Administrator Account (the same also applies to Windows Vista). With Windows Server 2K8, the administrator access token is split into 2 tokens when logged into the server. One of these is an administrator token and the other a standard user token. During the logon process,...