Key Manager Started from MMC Does Not Return Focus
Article ID: 183740
Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
This article was previously published under Q183740
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SYMPTOMS
When you display the properties of a Web site in the Microsoft Management
Console (MMC) and select the Directory Security, Secure Communications
option, you see a button labeled Key Manager or Edit, depending on whether
you have configured security previously. If you click the Key Manager or
Edit button, the Key Manager application starts. Focus will not be
returned to the MMC unless you first close Key Manager.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs because Key Manager is being started as a child
window of the Properties dialog box.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Internet Information
Server version 4.0.
WORKAROUND
If you need to have Key Manager displayed while editing the properties of
a Web site, first close the Web site's Properties dialog box, and then
click the Key Manager icon on the MMC toolbar. This starts Key Manager as
a separate application. After it starts, you can bring up the Properties
dialog box for the Web site in the MMC.
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