Link "Create or extend webapplication" missing in Central Admin

As we all know 'Central Admin' is the place for Sharepoint to administer a lot of things. One of the things we can do in the Central admins 'application management' tab is to create or extend a webapplication.

I recently opened in a Windows 2008 environment 'Central Admin' and went to the 'application management' tab, but found that the link 'Create or extend webapplication' was missing. What the.....

After some research I found a simple solution to fix this. Close the browser. Start a new browser window by right-clicking on the Internet Explorer shortcut and choose the 'Run as administrator' option. Next browse to the Central Admin site and voila. The link is being displayed again.

Hope this post will save you some time!

Ciao,
Niels