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Asp.net Error: The Active Directory membership provider has not been configured to support search methods

Solution for the error:
The following message may help in diagnosing the problem: The Active Directory membership provider has not been configured to support search methods.

This error usually displayed when Active directory is choosen to get ASP.net based website members
Just add : enableSearchMethods=”true” in the web.config file as detailed below

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    <membership defaultProvider="MyADMembershipProvider" >
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      <providers>
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        <add name="MyADMembershipProvider" enableSearchMethods="true"
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        type="System.Web.Security.ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, &#xD;&#xA;        PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
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        connectionStringName="ADConnectionString"
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        attributeMapUsername="sAMAccountName"
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        connectionUsername="Domain\UserName"
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        connectionPassword="PassWord"/>
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      </providers>
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    </membership>
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Posted: October 29th, 2009

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