Error 0x80070005: "General access denied error."

Error 0x80070005 General access denied error

As the wording implies, this is always a security problem. In some cases, this error occurs because we really did try to perform an operation that we were not allowed to perform. However, this error often occurs because of a problem with the way we established our security context.

Chapter 8 contains a variety of information about establishing a security context with the directory and discovering security information dynamically at runtime. A technique we like to use is to try the equivalent operation in a different environment or with a completely different tool, such as LDP (see Appendix B). If we can make it work in once place but not in another, then the difference usually lies in how we established our security context.