Active Directory Web Services encountered an error while reading the settings for the specified Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services instance. Active Directory Web Services will retry this operation periodically. In the mean time, this instance

Edit the registry HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ADAM_VMwareVCMSDS\Parameters , the | SSL Port value is created as a REG_SZ instead of REG_DWORD and the value is empty

You need to restart the active directory web services service and also the vmwarevcmsds service.

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Active Directory Web Services encountered an error while reading the settings for the specified Active Directory Lightwe…