Applications may freeze when ADSI APIs waits infinitely for server to respond in Windows Server 2012 R2

This issue occurs because ADSI doesn't support time-outs when LDAP calls are made to domain controllers. Instead, a NULL value is passed in most of the API calls. This causes Wldap32.dll to wait until a response is received from the server.

Affected applications

The following applications are reported to have encountered this issue:

• Azure Active Directory Connect
• System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that's described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

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Prerequisites

To apply this hotfix, you must have April 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (2919355) installed in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2.

Registry information

This hotfix introduces a default time-out at the ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces) level, it may cause application compatibility issues in which a legitimate LDAP query takes more than 10 minutes to respond in some rare scenarios. After you install this hotfix, all such LDAP queries will time out. Therefore, there is a registry switch to disable or enable the default time-out.

Registry key path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ADSI\Tracing
Registry key name: DisableAdsiTimeout
Type: REG_DWORD

Notes:

• If the registry key is not present, global time-out is set to default of 10 minutes.
• If the registry key is present with a value (0), global time-out is set to default 10 minutes.
• If the registry key is present with a non-zero value, global time-out is disabled and it reverts to the previous behavior (there is no timeout and it is timeout indefinite).

Restart requirement

You may have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix doesn't replace a previously released hotfix.