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COMADMIN_E_USERPASSWDNOTVALID
COM+ identity, role, and administration security: exact meaning of COMADMIN_E_USERPASSWDNOTVALID
The application identity account or password is not valid. COM+ validates credentials configured for a server application identity before accepting or using them.
Windows describes this condition as “The identity or password set on the application is not valid”.
Where the result occurs
This result concerns a concrete COM+ identity, role, credential, or call-authentication contract; successful interactive access does not prove that the COMAdmin or application identity can perform the operation. In the specific case of it, record the identity mode, account name, domain status, password-expiration state, logon rights, and the exact point where validation occurred.
Evidence to collect before repair
- Evidence should include application AppID and identity mode, captured before a repair changes state.
- Collect resolved account SID, domain, enabled/locked state, and password-expiration status when diagnosing this result; without it the symbolic HRESULT is underdetermined.
- Record required logon rights and security-policy events.
- Preserve the deployment step that last changed the identity credentials; it anchors the failure to the real administration object.
Diagnostic sequence
- verify the account independently without logging the password.
- The next diagnostic action is to confirm the account has the required COM+ server-application logon rights.
- To isolate this result, set current credentials through Component Services or COMAdmin.
- save the identity and recycle only the affected application.
- test activation and inspect logon failure events.
Difference from nearby COMADMIN results
COMADMIN_E_NOUSER means a principal cannot be resolved; this value can also cover a resolved account with invalid credentials.
Retry and recovery
Set a valid managed identity choice or current credentials through supported administration and verify required logon rights.
Practical administration scenario
A COM+ server application retains an expired password and fails when deployment attempts to save the identity configuration.
Official Microsoft references
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