User Accounts in Domain Admins group do not have full administrative rights to the server

Our server was fine until recently one day we lost admin access for admin user accounts. If we log in to the server with the Domain Admin account, this account has full admin access to the server and can install and launch all programs and even all server
admin tools. If we log into the server with a user account which is in the Domain Admins group, that account cannot install software or launch Services.MSC. Even IE will not load any page and crash with a "Not Responding" Error.
The server has no viruses we even ran SFC /SCANNOW and it did repair from corrupted files but that didn't fix the issue.
Any ideas?

Hi Rick,
May be UAC is blocking installtion. Have it disabled and see if it helps. Ensure you have domain admin groups added into local administrators group.
Alos Check these links please.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b5300f28-6a2a-4760-8b80-97a2da0f87c1/2012-domain-admin-user-cannot-install-programs-on-a-domain-windows-7-pc?forum=winserverDS
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0ca040de-52ac-4259-bf78-c22436fd04d4/domain-users-with-domain-admins-right-cannot-install-programs-or-open-server-manager?forum=winserverDS
Thanks,
Umesh.S.K

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