New Fix: Attempting to login to the SCVMM self-service portal fails with "Could not load file or assembly"
Published Feb 15 2019 03:50 AM 293 Views
First published on TECHNET on Sep 08, 2010

Attempting to login to the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) self-service portal may fail with the following error message in the browser:

Could not load file or assembly ‘TraceWrapper,
Version=1 .0.523.0, Culture=neutral,
PubhcKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its
dependencies. An attempt was made to load a
program with an incorrect format.
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This can occur if the application pool for SCVMM self-service portal is configured with Allow 32-bit Applications set to “True” in the Advanced Settings.

By default on a 64-bit machine, the Application pool in IIS 7 has the Allow 32-bit Applications setting set to false, however in certain environments the application pool may have Allow 32-bit Applications configured as True. In these cases we will receive error message as stated above. To resolve this issue change the Allow 32-bit Applications setting to False from True. To do that perform the following steps:

  • Open the IIS admin console.
  • Right-click the Application pool corresponding to SCVMM and select Advanced settings.
  • Under the Advanced settings, select the Allow 32-bit Applications setting and change it to False.

For the latest version of this article please see the Knowledge Base article below:

KB2397656 - Attempting to login to the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 self-service portal fails with "Could not load file or assembly"

J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer

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