I was receiving the following error when connecting to the system console through the VMware vSphere client

Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe within retry period

I found a page knowledge base article Opening a virtual machine console from vSphere Client fails with the error: Unable to contact the MKS (2032016)

It shows that you need to delete a variable called USER and the steps to do so.
I deleted a variable called USERNAME

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