Windows error 0x8007203B, -2147016645

Detailed Error Information

DS_LOCAL_ERROR^[1]

Message	A local error has occurred.
Declared in	winerror.h

HRESULT analysis^[2]

Flags	Severity	Failure
	Reserved (R)	false
	Origin	Microsoft
	NTSTATUS	false
	Reserved (X)	false
Facility	Code	7 (0x007)
	Name	FACILITY_WIN32^[2]^[1]
	Description	This region is reserved to map undecorated error codes into HRESULTs.^[2]^[1]
Error Code		8251 (0x203b)

This is a Win32 error which has been mapped into an HRESULT. More information may be available in error 0x0000203b.

Questions

Can't query AD (get a DirectoryServicesCOMException)

I'm attempting to query AD in an ASP.Net (4.0) application that is running on Windows Server 2008 R2 (IIS7 installed). (It also fails when running as a 2.0 application as well) This is nothing new for me, as I've done this many times before. I wrote a small ASP.Net program [...] read more

asp.net

windows

windows-server-2008

directoryservices

Error System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x8007203B): A local error has occurred

I use following code below to verify user and password in LDAP: bool authentic = false; string ip_server = "10.53.41.21"; string userName = "CN=test,N=Users,DC=user,DC=domain,DC=COM"; string password = "something"; try { DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + ip_server, userName, password); // entry. object nativeObject = entry.NativeObject; authentic = true; } catch [...] read more

asp.net

iis-7

System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x8007203B): A local error has occurred

When we try to search for a user in ActiveDirectory, we get that exception - 0x8007203B. Basically we deployed a web service, which uses DirectoryEntry & DirectorySearcher class to find a user in AD, and sometimes this exception happens. But when we do IISReset, it again works fine. Code is [...] read more

active-directory

directoryservices

Comments

Sources

winerror.h from Windows SDK 10.0.14393.0
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231198.aspx

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