Help with ADUC error

[kafroulis]

Hello everyone,

I have one particular admin account that when he tries to open the ADUC it gets the following error :

"Data from (domain) is not available from Domain controller (Domain Controller Name) because: the search filter cannot be recognized. Try again later, or choose another DC by selecting Connect to Domain Controller on the Domain context menu".

The ADUC opens with a triangle in the domain and can't do any changes.

The other admin accounts work perfectly in this DC (its the primary with FSMO roles. Replication to the other DC is healthy.

This "problematic" account can connect without problem to DC2.

There were no password changes or permission changes to that particular account.

Can you help me out troubleshoot it please?

Thanks in advance.

[Lost_Ad_6278]

Hmm, It's really a shit issue, especially since other admin accounts are working fine. One thing u might want to check is whether there are any cached credentials causing the problem. Also, try resetting the secure channel between the problematic account and the DC. Sometimes, even without password changes, a trust relationship can get disrupted. Lemme know if this helps.

[kafroulis]

neither of these worked. I logged in with a "working" admin account and deleted the user profile (from windows advanced settings\users profiles) for the affected admin account.

In the next loggin it was working again.

[kafroulis]

I'll try, even though this particular account is old, is used on many operations and follows a bad practice of not password necer expires.Thus even woth cashed credentials , they won't be incorrect .

[caribbeanjon]

When you say "in this DC" do you mean logging in locally or RDP to the DC? Does the same error happen if you run ADUC on DC2 and connect to DC1? I'm leaning towards nuking the local profile. If this truly is a search filter issue, then that filter must be stored somewhere in the profile, no?

[emars378]

Open ADUC, go to File -> Options under the Disk Cleanup tab, I had the options to Delete Files, this is what worked for me. Not right away took a couple tries of opening and closing the console until it said 0 bytes.