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Q: I use MMC to administrator IIS server locally and across the
Internet.
Every once in awhile I will have MMC connected to a machine and then shut it
down saving the settings in MMC. For whatever reason the IIS server is
removed, disconnected, or changes IP address. When I open up MMC it tries
to reconnect to the server. MMC takes a minute to find out that the machine
(or Admin Service) is not responding then comes into view. The problem is
that I can't disconnect the machine that has vanished, if MMC can't connect
to it, there is no node for that machine and I can't remove it. I have so
many vanished machine right now that it takes 5 minutes to MMC to come up on
my machine. What can I do? A: You can work around this by creating a new console file, without the old
"ghost" connections. If he launches ISM (rather than computer management),
it will be in author mode, and allow new consoles to be saved. There are
directions within MMC's help for this. - Wayne Berry |
