This was the error which was presented when investigating an “unrelated” issue with a Windows 2016 virtual machine. Various services that should have been running on the affected VM were not operating correctly
Using remote access tools and vmware console – logon failed but referenced “Other Person” despite using the domain credentials which should permit access.
Attempting a local administrator account gave the same message. I connected to the event logs after checking disk space on the affected machine (\\server\c$) and reviewed but found nothing that jumped out. After researching I felt that the problem could be service related but decided initially to go for a remote restart through the remote access tool that was in use. This turned out to “resolve” the issue but was still curious as to what caused the problem in the first instance.
Further analysis suggested that Windows updates had loaded overnight and the vm had restarted twice as part of the service stack / cumulative update.
Checking the updates applied gave
At this stage no other reports of the error or if it relates to the updates above were found but given the “unique” nature of the error I felt it was worth reporting for others
Will update if any clarifications appear regarding this error of “The handle is invalid”