System Manager and Custom MMC

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From: Smurfman (smurfman_at_news.postalias)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:13:02 -0800

I have a custom MMC in which I have added several snap-ins, however, recently
when I attempt to add the System Manager snap-in, the MMC crashes and
generates a windows error report.

I notice in the security event log, messages about lsass.exe and mmc.exe
being logged for the Windows Firewall.

I can re-create this behaviour with a number of other snap-ins as well, for
example, when attempting to add the Group Policy Management Console, just
after clicking OK, the Custom MMC crashes. I get the same result also, when
I add the services snap-in, and attempt to connect to another server.

Is there an exception that needs to be added to allow these snap-ins to run.
 The interesting thing is that if I run the System Manager by browsing to it,
it runs fine, and all of my previous snap-ins, such as AD and IIS, and ISA
work just fine.

Windows XP SP2?

J