Managed Metadata Service - Cannot Add a New Group - SharePoint 2010

Recently I've been heavily involved with the new Document Set feature, Managed Meta data Service and sharing the content types across the farm in SharePoint 2010.


Background:
Since Microsoft has changed the way Shared Services used to work in 2007 so everything of Shared Services - 2007 now fall under Manage Service Applications. There's a whole new implementation around the way we use to implement the content types and share them across the farms and site collections. Now there's a new Service Application called 'Managed Meta Data Service'. This is centralise place where you can create the terms and associate them with the document as well as the content types to expose them across the farm.


Problem:
By default the administrator has the read only access to this services. The symptoms include that the administrator cannot create a new group in the term store.


Solution:
To enable the administrator access as 'Full Control' follow these steps:


1-First make sure administrator is present in 'Farm Administrators' group.


2-Navigate to Central Administration > Application Management > Manage service applications


3-Select the service with type 'Managed Metadata Service' and click on 'Permissions' in ribbon


4-Make sure the account is present here if not then add it as 'Full Access to Terms Store' and click Ok

5-This is important, select 'Managed Metadata Service' again and click 'Manage'.In term store management tool application page make sure administrator is present as 'Term Store Administrator' if not then add it.



6-Click 'Save'
After finishing the above mentioned steps administrator should be able to access the service with full control. You can copy the same steps to enable the permissions for the other services under Manage Service Applications.


Majid