UserPrincipals.GetAuthorizationGroups An error (1301) occurred while enumerating the groups. After upgrading to Server 2012 Domain Controller

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I have just run into this same issue and the info I have managed to track down may be helpful; as above we have seen this problem where the domain controller is running Server 2012 - firstly with a customer deployment and then replicated on our own network.

After some experimentation we found that our code would run fine on Server 2012, but hit the 1301 error code when the client system was running Server 2008. The key information about what was happening was found here:

MS blog translated from German

The hotfix referred to in the link below has fixed the problem on our test system

SID S-1-18-1 and SID S-1-18-2 can't be mapped

Hope this is helpful for someone! As many have noted this method call seems rather fragile and we will probably look at implementing some alternative approach before we hit other issues.

Gary