The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist
Question / Problem
The application displays an error in the Windows event log: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist.
Answer / Solution
The logged in user needs to have read access to the Active Directory Domain.
- Go to the Domain Controller and start the tool 'Active Directory Users and Computers'.
- Navigate through the tree to the user and open the context menu .over the user > select properties.
- Go to tab 'Memberof'.
- When user is Domain-User, then the user has access to the active directory by default.
Check if user is member of security group 'domain-user' via cmd:
> gpresult /user username /r