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    Server 2016 Unresponsive - Windows Installer

    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...
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    Server 2016 Unresponsive - Windows Installer

    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...
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    Server 2016 Unresponsive - Windows Installer

    There are, what appear to be, 1000's of msiexec log files, each of them is exactly 2bytes and empty.
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    Server 2016 Unresponsive - Windows Installer

    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
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    Server 2016 Unresponsive - Windows Installer

    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.
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    Server 2016 Unresponsive - Windows Installer

    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...
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