Posted on: 11/25/2014 7:36:26 PM | Views : 367

Hi there,
I always find making forms authentication work against AD a very difficult task.  I came across http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff650307.aspx#paght000021_step1 this article.  I followed the steps as stated but I keep getting “An operations error occurred.”  I googled and tried most of the things that I found but no progress.
In my extension internet search I found articles about Forms authentication for ASP.NET version 1.1 and 2.0. For some strange reason I haven’t found any articles of code sample for versions above 2.0.  Either things haven’t changed or everybody except me has mastered the Forms authentication against AD.
To make things interesting our live server is II6 and development server is IIS 7.5 which doesn’t make it easy.
If I just use on LDAP and make it a default, the code works fine for .net 2.0 in Classic m ...

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