Why does authenticating against LDAP with DirectoryEntry intermittently throw COMException (0x8007203A): “The server is not operational”?

Question

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I\'m building an ASP.NET website which needs to support authentication against LDAP.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and fixed it with this method

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/archive/2007/08/09/system-directoryservices-and-connection-pooling.aspx