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Steve Whitcher
Dec 20, 2017Bronze Contributor
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...
Josh Villagomez
Microsoft
Jan 23, 2018Thanks 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, 2018Just 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
- Steve WhitcherJan 25, 2018Bronze Contributor
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 FowlerMar 19, 2018Iron Contributor
Good news, this has now been fixed :) Client should have auto updated, and temp files not being created anymore.
- Adam FowlerJan 25, 2018Iron Contributor
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.