I ran into a problem with VMware vSphere 6.5 Auto Deploy suddenly stopped working.
When trying to change rules with New-DeployRule or Repair-DeployImageCache I got the following error:
Repair-DeployImageCache System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfile at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(String value, String xmlKey, String& assemblyString) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandler handler, ISerParser serParser) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream, HeaderHandler handler) at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile() System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfile at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(String value, String xmlKey, String& assemblyString) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandler handler, ISerParser serParser) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream, HeaderHandler handler) at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile() System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfile at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(String value, String xmlKey, String& assemblyString) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandler handler, ISerParser serParser) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream, HeaderHandler handler) at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile() System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfile at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(String value, String xmlKey, String& assemblyString) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandler handler, ISerParser serParser) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream, HeaderHandler handler) at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile()
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