Import-Module Az.Accounts fails with "Access to the path 'Global\AzurePowerShellConfigInit' is denied" when used concurrent

[zeilemaker54]

Description

This is how to ‘build’ an environment to reproduce the issue on a windows computer:

1. Create 4 local accounts with no additional permissions

2. Create a folder for powershell scripts

3. Create a powershell script called test-azaccounts.ps1 with the following content:
   . "$PSScriptRoot\test-azaccounts2.ps1" *>> "$home\Documents\test-azaccounts.log"

4. Create a powershell script called test-azaccounts2.ps1 with the following content:

$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$InformationPreference = 'Continue'
$DebugPreference = 'Continue'

Write-Information "$(Get-Date) Start"

try {
  $null = Import-Module Az.Accounts
}
catch {
  Write-Information "$(Get-Date) Error: $($_.Exception.Message)"
}
Write-Information "$(Get-Date) End"

5. Create a scheduled task for each local account (running as the local account) with the same trigger/schedule running script test-azaccount.ps1 (run powershell.exe with arguments: -noninteractive -file \test-azaccounts.ps1)
   The script will create a logfile in the document folder of each local account.
   You will notice that only 1 scheduled task will succeed, the other 3 will fail.

Issue script & Debug output

See description

Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.4.6
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.4.6
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.17763
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Module versions

On 1 of the instances:
Script     3.0.3                 Az.Accounts                         {Add-AzEnvironment, Clear-AzConfig, Clear-AzConte…

On the other instances:

Error output

On 1 of the instances the following is logged:

12/19/2024 13:30:02 Start
Initializing ConditionalAssemblyContext. PSEdition is [Core]. PSVersion is [7.4.6].
Initializing ConditionalAssemblyProvider. AssemblyRootPath is [C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Az.Accounts\3.0.3\StartupScripts\..\lib].
Registering Az shared AssemblyLoadContext.
AssemblyLoadContext registered.
12/19/2024 13:30:04 End

On the other instances:
12/19/2024 13:30:02 Start
Initializing ConditionalAssemblyContext. PSEdition is [Core]. PSVersion is [7.4.6].
Initializing ConditionalAssemblyProvider. AssemblyRootPath is [C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Az.Accounts\3.0.3\StartupScripts\..\lib].
Registering Az shared AssemblyLoadContext.
AssemblyLoadContext registered.
12/19/2024 13:30:04 Error: Access to the path 'Global\AzurePowerShellConfigInit' is denied.
12/19/2024 13:30:04 End

[lzandman]

This looks very similar to this issue I reported: microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks#20245