We have vSphere setup and running on Windows 2008 R2 Server. The server is in a Windows domain. I was running the virtual center service as the local administrator and was able to access local groups for adding permissions to vSphere objects. I was unable to access users within the domain so I switched to using a domain service account for running the VC service and I was then able to access users within the Windows domain, but unable to access local users on the server due to permissions. I do have the service account in the local administrators group. From what I understand Windows 2008 may have some UAC controls that prevent users, even though they are in the administrators group from accessing the local user/group directory and possible other Windows management functions. Does this make sense? Is there a way to allow users within the local administrators group to have the same rights as the local administrator on Windows 2K8 R2? All I found was Windows 7 references concerning this.This maybe more of a Windows questions, but maybe someone on this forum has worked through the same issue.

Thanks.