I had jenkins running as a service under my username account without an issue. I needed to use another service account instead to run Jenkins which I do not believe is part of the AD group.

After copying all the subfolders and files from my user account's .jenkins folder to the service account's .jenkins folder, Jenkins is not firing up anymore and displaying the following stacktrace. Just to note, the path it is complaining about is the path to my user account's config file. I shared the entire .jenkins folder permissions with the service account but to no avail and I have no idea where its getting this path from.

com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CannotResolveClassException: hudson.plugins.active_directory.ActiveDirectorySecurityRealm at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.DefaultMapper.realClass(DefaultMapper.java:81) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:125) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.DynamicProxyMapper.realClass(DynamicProxyMapper.java:55) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:125) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.PackageAliasingMapper.realClass(PackageAliasingMapper.java:88) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:125) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.ClassAliasingMapper.realClass(ClassAliasingMapper.java:79) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:125) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.ArrayMapper.realClass(ArrayMapper.java:74) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:125) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.SecurityMapper.realClass(SecurityMapper.java:71) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:125) at hudson.util.XStream2$CompatibilityMapper.realClass(XStream2.java:391) at hudson.util.xstream.MapperDelegate.realClass(MapperDelegate.java:45) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:125) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CachingMapper.realClass(CachingMapper.java:47) at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.determineType(RobustReflectionConverter.java:510) at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.doUnmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:341) Caused: jenkins.util.xstream.CriticalXStreamException: ---- Debugging information ---- cause-exception : com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CannotResolveClassException cause-message : hudson.plugins.active_directory.ActiveDirectorySecurityRealm class : hudson.model.Hudson required-type : hudson.model.Hudson converter-type : hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter path : /hudson/securityRealm line number : 107 version : not available ------------------------------- at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.doUnmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:370) at hudson.util.RobustReflectionConverter.unmarshal(RobustReflectionConverter.java:284) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:72) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:72) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:66) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:50) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.start(TreeUnmarshaller.java:134) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.unmarshal(AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.java:32) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1391) at hudson.util.XStream2.unmarshal(XStream2.java:174) at hudson.util.XStream2.unmarshal(XStream2.java:145) at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:1376) at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:194) Caused: java.io.IOException: Unable to read C:\Users\byunger\.jenkins\config.xml at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:197) at hudson.XmlFile.unmarshal(XmlFile.java:177) at jenkins.model.Jenkins.loadConfig(Jenkins.java:3272) at jenkins.model.Jenkins.access$1200(Jenkins.java:336) at jenkins.model.Jenkins$12.run(Jenkins.java:3374) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.TaskGraphBuilder$TaskImpl.run(TaskGraphBuilder.java:175) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.runTask(Reactor.java:305) at jenkins.model.Jenkins$5.runTask(Jenkins.java:1151) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$2.run(Reactor.java:222) at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$Node.run(Reactor.java:121) at jenkins.security.ImpersonatingExecutorService$1.run(ImpersonatingExecutorService.java:68) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750) Caused: org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.ReactorException at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.execute(Reactor.java:291) at jenkins.InitReactorRunner.run(InitReactorRunner.java:49) at jenkins.model.Jenkins.executeReactor(Jenkins.java:1184) at jenkins.model.Jenkins.<init>(Jenkins.java:976) at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:85) at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:81) at hudson.WebAppMain$3.run(WebAppMain.java:298) Caused: hudson.util.HudsonFailedToLoad