Question : Sharepoint Shared Services administration

We seem to have lost access to the User Profiles and Properties link in the Shared Services Administration page for our SharePoint Server. Even logged in as a farm administrator, we get Access denied.  Is there a way to force access to the page?

Answer : Sharepoint Shared Services administration

To change the permission settings, use the SharePoint Site Actions Menu (on the right), and select Advanced Permissions in the Users and Permissions topic.

By default you only see the windows account used during the setup.

 Add another windows Account with full control