So, your IIS Manager comes up blank, too?

Published 28 February 08 09:33 PM | jamesbl 

Have you ever opened the IIS Manager MMC (quick shortcut - Start/Run/inetmgr) only to find it comes up completely blank?  Also, keen eyes will notice it takes a lot longer for the MMC window itself to appear as well, when this problem occurs.  This phenomena appears to only occur if you have MOSS installed.

In any case, if you have seen this problem on one or more servers in your farm, you can work around it by simply restarting the OWSTimer service ("Windows SharePoint Services Timer" service).  This is fairly acceptable to most since it does not require you to reset IIS or reboot the server (i.e. no downtime).

The good news is there is now a hotfix that should resolve this issue!  Give Microsoft Support a call if you're experiencing this issue.

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# Joe Rodgers said on July 2, 2008 1:31 PM:

There's an IIS 6.0 update that recently came out that should be applied to all WSS/MOSS servers, as it

# SharePoint Products and Technologies - Pointing to Share the Knowledge - Luis Du Solier G. said on October 27, 2008 9:28 PM:

Alguna vez has entrado al IIS Manager MMC y de pronto no ves los Sitios Web ni Applications Pools ni

# Luis Du Solier G. - SharePoint en Español said on February 10, 2009 2:54 PM:

Alguna vez has entrado al IIS Manager MMC y de pronto no ves los Sitios Web ni Applications Pools ni

# Andy Robinson said on March 27, 2009 6:55 AM:

Im getting the same error at times on my live webservers. Only we dont have sharepoint of any flavor on this server. Do you think this hotfix will help?

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