Unable to connect to VSTS LocalDB instance - continuous-integration

We run integration tests in a Visual Studio Online build tasks, executing them against a LocalDB instance that runs on the hosted VSTS build agent.
We have a task to start LocalDB by executing these commands:
sqllocaldb create MSSQLLocalDB
sqllocaldb start MSSQLLocalDB
sqllocaldb info MSSQLLocalDB
This seems OK when it runs:
LocalDB instance "MSSQLLocalDB" started.
Name: MSSQLLocalDB
Version: 13.1.4001.0
Owner: factoryvm-az442\VssAdministrator
Auto-create: Yes
State: Running
The connection string from the integration test project look like this:
Server=(localdb)\\MSSQLLocalDB;Database=MyDatabase;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true
This has been working for over a year now, but over the past few days we are seeing this when trying to run the tests:
Login failed for user 'factoryvm-az442\VssAdministrator'
Since Trusted_Connection is used, I'm not sure why it can't login. I did also try removing it. I also tried parsing the instance named pipe name from the output of sqllocaldb info MSSQLLocalDB and using that in the connection string, e.g. Server=np:\\.\pipe\LOCALDB#1579B709\tsql\query;Database=MyDatabase, but then I get:
A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process.
(provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.)
Any idea how we can get this running again?
Note: Please note this is not the same as #44724118, as I do not have an invalid connection string and am not using IntegratedSecurity

I had also opened a GitHub issue, and someone from Microsoft replied that they updated the VSTS agent image - this seems to have resolved the problem.

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