| Previous | Next |
| STATUS_TRANSLATION_COMPLETE | STATUS_NOTHING_TO_TERMINATE |
STATUS_DS_MEMBERSHIP_EVALUATED_LOCALLY
Group membership was evaluated without a Global Catalog
STATUS_DS_MEMBERSHIP_EVALUATED_LOCALLY is a warning-style directory result. It indicates that the domain controller evaluated the account with local directory information because it could not reach a Global Catalog server.
This matters most for logon, authorization and token construction in multi-domain forests. Universal group membership and cross-domain object lookups depend on Global Catalog data; a local-only evaluation can therefore produce a different authorization picture from a normal GC-backed evaluation.
What to inspect
- Identify the authenticating domain controller and site.
- Check GC availability, site coverage and DNS/DC locator behavior for the client subnet.
- Correlate universal group membership caching and replication state before treating the account itself as wrong.
References
- Microsoft: Global Catalog
- Microsoft: planning Global Catalog placement
- Microsoft: AD replication concepts
- Microsoft Open Specifications: NTSTATUS values
Looking for a different code? Search another status or error code.