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MsSenseS.exe high CPU usage
Good Afternoon - We have a few servers in Azure that have extremely high CPU usage due to the "MsSenseS.exe" process. Is there anything that can be done to alleviate this? Seems like this process is ...
Why is this not a much bigger thing? We have rolled out Defender ATP with our Microsoft 365 E5 license stack and pushed this to 70+ autopilot machines as a POC for the rest of the business. All eventually started to onboard etc but it's killing the CPU with 20-30% use on the MSSense.exe (Defender ATP not the AV engine) all day every day.... what the hell is it doing? Looking at resource manager to see disk usage/files etc, it eventually shows nothing being accessed but still running at 25%.... it causes our Dell machines to overheat and the fans to go continuously..... Everywhere mentions the MsMPeng.exe but the MSSense.exe is the problem...Right Click task manager and set affinity doesn't work even if you have full permissions because you can't interfere with the Defender ATP services, it defeats the purpose of Defender ATP....