Re: Failed to Create Empty Document

Did you find this one? "PRB: MMC: Management Console May Fail to Start"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;231757

FWIW, I always want a pretty good indication that a reinstall is going to
solve my problem - I like to troubleshoot to the point where I believe a
reinstall is necessary, rather than to do a reinstall just in the hope that
it'll work. If I were in a situation where a reinstall would be as
disruptive as you describe, I'd definitely call PSS first.

"Jeremn" <Jeremn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:969C7BF2-0359-4730-981C-79C2041362E4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Anyone?? I can't be the first person to have seen this. Now the server
will drop remote desktop requests after you login to it.

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Hi everyone,

We rebooted our server over the weekend to complete some Windows
updates. Now after the reboot, anything that uses Microsoft Management
Console (MMC) will not work. Instead a warning stating:


"Failed to create empty document"


is displayed. When you click OK, nothing happens. This happens with
anything requiring a snap in. I have tried "Server Maintenance,
Eventviewer, DNS, Services, etc). All of these give the same result.


What is weird, is at times we can access MMC related applications by
connecting to the server via "Remote Desktop Connection"


I read a post that was talking about a similar situation.


http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs/br...



The proposed solution is to reinstall MMC. I want to avoid having to
resort to this because this is a production server running an ERP
Program/Database and Exchange. Any weirdness that would might occur as

a result of a reinstall would cripple us for days. There is also a few
differences between the problem in the post above and my problem.


We have also tried rebooting since this happened and this has not
helped.


Does anyone know what I can try to resolve this problem, or what caused

it in the first place?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks



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