Visual Studio 2015 Breaks New Logins


Update: I can confirm that this issue is fixed in Visual Studio with Update 1.

I recently ran into an issue where after pushing out new Visual Studio 2015 installs (with SCCM), new users could not log into those machines. When trying to log in with a new user, the following error occurs: “The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.”

When looking at the Event Logs, I saw access denied errors related to failing to copy some files to the users new profile from C:\Users\Default. (This hidden default profile is what all new user profiles are based from.)

SCVMM 1801 Upgrade Fails


When going through the upgrade process, I got a failure when install the upgraded Management Server.

After digging through the setup logs (C:\ProgramData\VMMLogs), I found this in the SetupWizard log file: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint ‘PK_tbl_NetMan_PortClassification’. Cannot insert duplicate key in object ‘dbo.tbl_NetMan_PortClassification’. The duplicate key value is ().

Install Application Step fails in Task Sequence


We recently ran into a problem where we were getting failures in our OSD Task Sequences trying to use the Install Applications step using System Center Configuration manager 2012 R2. When the Task Sequence hits the Install Application step it would fail with the error 0x80004005. After some troubleshooting were able to isolate the cause of the problem and find a workaround.