Stsadm access denied on Windows Server 2008

We recently faced one situation where we encountered Access Denied errors when attempting to run stsadm on a dev Windows Server 2008 Web Edition.We checked to see if the user account we were using was a local administrator on the server and it was.

We were not sure what was causing the problem.Then we looked into the User Account Control settings and those were enabled to help "protect" the server. Turning those off allowed me to run stsadm from the command line.

The User Account Control (UAC) is found under Control Panel --> User Accounts --> Turn User Account Control on or off.