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Dec 20, 2017

Tens of Thousands of temp files created by AAD Connect ADDS Heath Monitoring Agent

While investigating a 2008R2 server with low space on the system volume, I discovered over 65,000 .gz files in the directory c:\windows\temp\. Most of the files were under 500B, with some as large a...

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Josh Villagomez

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Microsoft

Jan 23, 2018

Thanks Steve for reporting this. Since this post, a few customers have reported the behavior and the proper development teams have been informed. Manually deleting the files is obviously not a solution. I will post an update if I see any progress on this. Thank you. - Josh

Josh Villagomez
Microsoft
Jan 24, 2018
Just update on this issue. I consulted the product team and unfortunately, there are no plans to mitigating this issue during this fiscal year. The only workaround as of now is to remove the files manually. I wish I had better news. In due time, I do believe the agent will be improved. - Josh
- Adam Fowler
  Iron Contributor
  Jan 25, 2018
  Thanks for the update Josh. I'm very surprised by this response though - this is going to get worse the longer Microsoft waits, and the wider impact of more people adopting the health monitoring agent. Plus, it shouldn't be hard to fix.
- Steve Whitcher
  Bronze Contributor
  Jan 25, 2018
  Wow, I'm amazed that there are no plans to fix this issue. It should be simple to fix, and is bound to cause problems sooner or later for everyone who uses AAD Connect ADDS Health Monitoring. :(
  - Adam Fowler
    Iron Contributor
    Mar 19, 2018
    Good news, this has now been fixed :) Client should have auto updated, and temp files not being created anymore.

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