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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
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
Jan 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.