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Steve Whitcher
Bronze Contributor
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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Steve Whitcher's avatar
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.    :(

 

 

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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.

  • Dean_DNE's avatar
    Dean_DNE
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 25, 2018

    Can you confirm the version number that included this fix?

     

    I updated to version 1.1.750.0 but it is still generating the temp files.

    • Adam Fowler's avatar
      Adam Fowler
      Iron Contributor
      May 03, 2018

      Hi Dean,

      Just checked and looks like we have 3.0.176 - You've linked to Azure AD Connect rather than AAD Connect Health... (yeah the names are a bit confusing!).

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