Error - Unable to access the IIS metabase

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On Windows 8 Pro: %systemroot%\inetsrv\config On Windows 7 and 8.1 and 10 %systemroot%\System32\inetsrv\config (Where %systemroot% is usually C:\Windows) Navigate to the appropriate location above in Windows Explorer. You will be blocked access with  a popup which says: "You don't have access to this folder - Click continue to permanently get access to this folder" Click 'continue' for this folder, and with the Export folder underneath. I changed the shortcut back to  "Run as me" (a member of the domain and local administrators ) and was able to open and deploy the  solution.