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

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Answer 1

Facing the same problem enumerating authorization groups and the patches noted in the answer did not apply to our web server.

Manually enumerating and ignoring the trouble causing groups is working well, however:

private static bool UserIsMember(string usr, string grp)
{
    usr = usr.ToLower();
    grp = grp.ToLower();

    using (var pc = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "DOMAIN_NAME"))
    {
        using (var user = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(pc, usr))
        {
            var isMember = false;
            var authGroups = user?.GetAuthorizationGroups().GetEnumerator();

            while (authGroups?.MoveNext() ?? false)
            {
                try
                {

                    isMember = authGroups.Current.Name.ToLower().Contains(grp);
                    if (isMember) break;
                }
                catch
                {
                    // ignored
                }
            }

            authGroups?.Dispose();
            return isMember;
        }
    }
}