NTSTATUS 0xC00002B1 (STATUS_DIRECTORY_SERVICE

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Description: The requested security or policy operation requires a directory service, but none is available.

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STATUS_DIRECTORY_SERVICE_REQUIRED

The operation requires an available directory service

This status is returned when the operation depends on directory-backed state and the current environment cannot provide a directory service. It should be separated from a simple object-not-found result: the infrastructure required to resolve or modify the object is unavailable.

Record machine domain membership, selected domain and domain controller, DNS/DC discovery results, and the API that returned the status. A local-account or registry workaround is not equivalent when the requested operation has directory semantics.

What to inspect

Capture domain membership, target domain, and selected domain controller.
Check directory-service reachability and the discovery path used by the caller.
Retry only after the required directory service is available and the same policy context can be resolved.

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