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SCSM 2025 installation failure - _PopulateUserRoles
Let me lay out the full picture first. Windows Server 2025, Remote SQL Server 2022 CU 20 FCI (used for internal reasons, but I also tried using Always On and encountered the same error), and a clean...
Problem solved. It was lack of attention to the documentation. In terms of SQL Server 2022 the official documentation states only "SQL Server 2022", it doesn't mention any cumulative update.
When I tried SCSM on a new SQL Server 2022 with no updates installed everything worked.
That's it.
It didn't work in another SCSM 2025 installation with SQL Server 2022 RTM. The issue was eventually resolved after installing SQL Server Native Client 11, OLE DB Driver 18.6.6, and ODBC Driver 17.10.4.1 in an environment running SQL Server 2022 CU26. I might have gotten things confused, as I didn't check the Native Client and driver versions at that time.