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Steve Whitcher
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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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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

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Josh Villagomez
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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

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