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I ran procexp64, as you suggested, and it identified the problem! The processes were being spawned by the Synology Active Backup client that was running on the box. I have no idea why that app has suddenly changed / failed, but we will obviously be examining new backup solutions. Thank you so...

As I said, previously, there are 1000's of empty log files - it appears that MSIEXEC is creating a log entry anywhere from 7 to 16 times / minute. Occasionally, it creates a different log entry similar to this: MSI (c) (E4:E0) [11:55:48:481]: Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80070008 1...

There are, what appear to be, 1000's of msiexec log files, each of them is exactly 2bytes and empty.

No, we don't use the Adobe creative cloud. The only Adobe product installed is Reader, and that wasn't running this morning between 2:00 and 11:00 am

I have searched the event logs, and I can't find the source. I restarted the box last night at 2:00 am and it was running at 10% CPU utilization with 1009 processes running. It is currently (10 hours later, with no additional users logged on) running at 100% CPU with 8627 processes running.

I have a Server 2016 (Standard) that I use to run Remote Desktop Services for 7 users. The box has two Xeon E5-2690 (2.9 Ghz) cpus, 256 Gb, and two 2 TB SSD drives. The box had been working flawlessly for ages. Within the last two weeks I've had to resort to restarting it every day...