IIS6 error”The handle is invalid” when closing the IIS Manager mmc

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We have a couple of servers that for some reason, show an error dialog when closing out of the IIS Manager. The error gives absolutely no information, and searches on Google and Bing have returned nothing.

The error is shown here:

Error The handle is invalid

There's nothing in the event log to correspond with the error, and I cannot find any other informaiton about the error to assist in troubleshooting.

The servers are Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Service Pack 2, with IIS 6 installed.

Has anybody seen this, and does anyone have a way to correct this issue?
I realize I may not have posted enough information to answer teh question, but this is really all I have. If you have other suggestions as to where to look for more details, I'm open to suggestions.

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We've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling IIS to no avail.

Best Answer

I had this occur on one of our servers. When I was logged on as user X I got the error "The Handle is invalid". I logged off the machine and back on as a different user and did NOT get the error in the IIS Manager. Both users were domain and local administrators but there must have been something about one of the accounts I was using to update IIS that it didn't like. I honestly have no idea what it is but maybe this can help in your situation.

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