topic Re: Distribution failed after changing AD LDAP setting in DSC in QlikView

Distribution failed after changing AD LDAP setting in DSC

greg-anderson — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi, all.

We recently migrated our QlikView servers to a new Active Directory domain. The migration went well, and we got our licenses reassigned to use LDAP on the new AD without a problem. I did leave the previous LDAP setting as secondary during the migration to give us time to migrate bookmarks and catch any users we might have missed.

When we had to cut the old AD completely, our Distribution stopped working. Nothing will publish to the QVS for the Access Point. It's always the same error:

QDSMain.Exceptions.TaskFailedException: Task execution failed with errors to follow. ---> QDSMain.Exceptions.DistributeToResourcesFailedException: Distribute to resource failed. ---> QDSMain.Exceptions.DscOffLineException: Failed to AddNamedUsers at QDSMain.Support.DSCHelper.AddNamedUsers(ILogBucket logBucket, XmlDocument xml, List`1 namedUsers, FileSystemPluginHelper fileSystemPluginHelper)

at QDSMain.Support.DSCHelper.GetFileSystemSecurity(ILogBucket logBucket, FileSystemPluginHelper fileSystemPluginHelper, List`1 recipients)

at QDSMain.QlikViewServerDistributionResource.CreateSettingsBlock(ILogBucket i_LogBucket, FileSystemPluginHelper i_FileSystemPluginHelper, String i_SourceDocumentName, DateTime

These documents distribute to all authenticated users. I even tried 'All Users', with the same result.

None of our authenticated users are trying to hit the old domain. We cleared out (or migrated) every bookmark from the old AD users.

I cannot find a single setting or note that references the old AD LDAP, but I'm still getting this message.

Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Re: Distribution failed after changing AD LDAP setting in DSC

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:31:31 GMT

Is the AD User that runs the QlikView Windows Services in the new domain and is it a Local Admin + in the local QlikView Administrators Group

Re: Distribution failed after changing AD LDAP setting in DSC

greg-anderson — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:42:58 GMT

Hi, Bill. Thanks for the quick reply.

The answers are yes and yes. I've verified that more than once this morning, just to be sure.

Re: Distribution failed after changing AD LDAP setting in DSC

greg-anderson — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:40:54 GMT

This issue has been resolved.

Someone had turned off the QVS service on our Publishing Server after being told it was 'best practice'. When I started that service again, everything went back to normal.

I don't know if I'm violating some best practice by running QVS on my publishing server, but I do know that I need it running to keep my document distribution flowing.

I apologize for the misleading question involving the AD switch. The timing and the contents of the log just made that seem relevant to the cause.