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SL_E_INVALID_AD_DATA
Meaning in the licensing pipeline
When SL_E_INVALID_AD_DATA returns 0xC004C4AF, diagnosis has reached Genuine Validation. Specifically, Active Directory-based activation evidence is malformed, incomplete or not valid for the current product.
The validation engine distinguishes malformed evidence, revoked offline material, binding mismatch, file-integrity failure and an explicit non-genuine verdict. Those stages require different evidence and different recovery actions. The code is not interchangeable with failure to discover a domain activation object over the network.
Windows reports “Genuine Validation determined the active directory activation data is invalid”.
Position
| Different result | If the experiment instead proves “the validation health check finds altered or inconsistent language-specific MUI resources”, diagnose that condition separately rather than treating it as this HRESULT. |
Correction and regression check
To correct this using supported mechanisms, record domain, activation object identity, client SKU and the returned AD data metadata.
Changes that make this code harder to diagnose
- Avoid rebuilding stores before preserving hashes and event history.
- Avoid hand-editing signed blobs, protected files or firmware tables.
- Avoid using unofficial activation patches during integrity investigation.
Technical references
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