“Error: The SMS Provider reported an error” when trying to create new Collections following an upgrade to SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU2

I’ve just upgraded one of my Sites from ConfigMgr 2012 R2 to ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 with CU2.

However, after doing so whenever I go to create a new Collection I get the following error message in the console:

Error: The SMS Provider reported an error.

If I look in the SMSprov.log I see:

*** exec dbo.sp_SMSGetNextID N'NextCollectionSiteID',1
 *** [42000][6522][Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user-defined routine or aggregate "fnConvertHexStringToBinary": ~~System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.~~System.FormatException: ~~ at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)~~ at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)~~ at System.Byte.Parse(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)~~ at Microsoft.SystemsManagementServer.SQLCLR.SMSUtil.ConvertHexStringToBinary(SqlString sdmBinaryString)~~. : sp_SMSGetNextID
 *~*~[42000][6522][Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user-defined routine or aggregate "fnConvertHexStringToBinary": ~~System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.~~System.FormatException: ~~ at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)~~ at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)~~ at System.Byte.Parse(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)~~ at Microsoft.SystemsManagementServer.SQLCLR.SMSUtil.ConvertHexStringToBinary(SqlString sdmBinaryString)~~. : sp_SMSGetNextID ThreadID : 34412 , DbError: 6522 , Sev: 16~*~*
 CCollectionSource_SQL::InsertCollection - could not get site ID
 *~*~e:\qfe\nts\sms\siteserver\sdk_provider\smsprov\sspcollection.cpp(855) : Unable to update collection due to SQL error.~ SQL Error: [42000][6522][Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user-defined routine or aggregate "fnConvertHexStringToBinary": ~~System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.~~System.FormatException: ~~ at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)~~ at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)~~ at System.Byte.Parse(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)~~ at Microsoft.SystemsManagementServer.SQLCLR.SMSUtil.ConvertHexStringToBinary(SqlString sdmBinaryString)~~. : sp_SMSGetNextID~*~*
 *~*~Unable to update collection due to SQL error. [42000][6522][Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user-defined routine or aggregate "fnConvertHexStringToBinary": ~~System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.~~System.FormatException: ~~ at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)~~ at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)~~ at System.Byte.Parse(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)~~ at Microsoft.SystemsManagementServer.SQLCLR.SMSUtil.ConvertHexStringToBinary(SqlString sdmBinaryString)~~. : sp_SMSGetNextID~*~*

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