What does NTSTATUS 0xC00002DC (STATUS_DS_HAVE_PRIMARY_MEMBERS) mean?

 
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STATUS_DS_LOCAL_CANT_HAVE_CROSSDOMAIN_LOCAL_MEMBER STATUS_WMI_NOT_SUPPORTED

STATUS_DS_HAVE_PRIMARY_MEMBERS

Meaning and context of STATUS_DS_HAVE_PRIMARY_MEMBERS

This status exposes a membership relationship that ordinary group views can hide. A user’s primaryGroupID contains the RID of its primary group; that membership is not listed in the user’s memberOf attribute or the group’s member attribute.

Before changing the group from security-enabled to distribution-only, identify accounts whose primaryGroupID equals the group RID. Inspect the group’s SID and the relevant account attributes; checking only explicit members can incorrectly show an empty group.

Move or correct the primary-group relationship through a controlled account-management process before considering conversion. Do not force a raw group-type change, because a security-disabled group is ignored in access-control entries and the directory is protecting an existing security relationship.

primaryGroupID attribute | AD DS primary-group definition | Changing group scope or type

Native status interpretation

STATUS_DS_HAVE_PRIMARY_MEMBERS is 0xC00002DC, an NTSTATUS error value. AllStat describes it as “Cannot change to security disabled group because of having primary members in this group.”


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