"Internal error in COM access layer" error when trying to provision a user in the target system (4341227)

When attempting to provision a new user in an Active Directory target system the following error is displayed in the logs when trying to set the password:

"Internal error in COM access layer: number: 80072035: The server is unwilling to process the request."

Upon further review of the StdioProcessor (Standard IO Processor) logs there are Domain Name System (DNS) resolution errors just before the creation of the target user:

2016-10-14 08:26:35.2649 WARN (SystemConnector f2d2dce0-c4f6-4c8e-8768-8f664b436c53) : Got no DNS resolution querying gc._msdcs.DOMAIN.COM
2016-10-14 08:26:35.2649 INFO (SystemConnector f2d2dce0-c4f6-4c8e-8768-8f664b436c53) : Try to get GC from dc=domain,dc=com
2016-10-14 08:26:35.2649 WARN (SystemConnector f2d2dce0-c4f6-4c8e-8768-8f664b436c53) : Got no DNS resolution querying gc._msdcs.DOMAIN.COM
2016-10-14 08:26:35.2649 INFO (SystemConnector f2d2dce0-c4f6-4c8e-8768-8f664b436c53) : Try to get GC from dc=com
2016-10-14 08:26:35.2649 INFO (SystemConnector f2d2dce0-c4f6-4c8e-8768-8f664b436c53) : No GC detected by using DNS of domain dc=domain,dc=com