System.UnauthorizedAccessException Access to the registry key

Question

I have some code that calls the TFS API and returns team meta data. (e.g. team names, area paths, etc.) The code works fine locally in Visual Studio ASP.NET MVC project, but fa

Answer 1

We had this issue and setting the "Load User Profile" in IIS application pool settings to True worked for us. But then the same issue came back and we found setting "Load User Profile" in IIS application pool settings to False fixed the issue once again. So it appears to me that it is the toggling of this setting that is fixing something rather than the actual value it is set to. No matter what "Load User Profile" in IIS application pool is set to, I would try toggling it to the opposite value, refresh the application pool and see if that helps. If anyone tracks down the root cause of this please share.