Active Directory COM Exception - An operations error occurred (0x80072020)

Question

I am getting an intermittent COM Exception \"An operations error occurred (0x80072020)\" (shown below) when I try and query Active Directory using the metho

Answer 1

Granted this is 2 years later, I ran into this and found that the following solved my issue:

using System.Web.Hosting;
...
...
// Code here runs as the logged on user

using (HostingEnvironment.Impersonate()) {
// This code runs as the application pool user
     DirectorySearcher searcher ...
}

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