Error with UserPrincipal.GetAuthorizationGroups() method

Question

I am having an issue using the GetAuthorizationGroups method of the UserPrincipal class in a web application.

Using the following code, I am receiving \"While trying to

Answer 1

Have your administrator look at the AD account for the user that returns the error code 5. I ran into that today and it turned out to be a setting on that user's account. There is a checkbox to inherit security settings that was not checked (all the other users were checked). This solved it for me.