Azure Arc enabled server Microsoft.SoftwareUpdateManagement.WindowsOsUpdateExtension folder is holding Gb's of logs for Updates. How do I disable this?

C Strawn 30

Hello,

        We have a Win Sever 2019 vm that was running out out of drive space one day and we tracked it down to 'C:\ProgramData\GuestConfig\extension_logs\Microsoft.SoftwareUpdateManagement.WindowsOsUpdateExtension'.  This folder has WindowsUpdateExtension.log files that vary from 10mb up to 1.2gb.  Can anyone point me in the right direction to disable this?  I appreciate any assistance.

Thank you.

Wigna Winston Fernando 10 Reputation points

2024-04-18T01:32:32.29+00:00

We are having the same issue.
Iztok Polbog 0 Reputation points

2024-04-19T06:43:59.75+00:00

Any solution here?
Monalla-MSFT 13,036 Reputation points

2024-05-02T18:46:16.6433333+00:00

@C Strawn Just checking in to see if the below answer helped. If this answers your query, do click "Accept as Answer" and click "Yes" for the same, which might be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
Steve Lane 5 Reputation points

2024-05-03T07:57:28.0466667+00:00

As for us they are consuming 99GB of space, is there any automated cleanup we can do or can we delete logs? We are running out of space on the disk, surely we don't need to add additional space to the disk just for these logs? This is since 10 January 2024
Miranda-5426 20 Reputation points

2024-05-09T16:37:39.6933333+00:00

I had opened up a case with Azure support, and they told me this morning that the product team has applied a fix for this issue, and it was automatically applied.
Rutger Janssen 0 Reputation points

2024-05-17T12:58:19.32+00:00

Is it already known whether the log files are cleaned automatically or manually? We still have a large amount of data in the folder in question.

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Monalla-MSFT 13,036 Reputation points

2024-04-24T13:19:14.7633333+00:00

@C Strawn , @Wigna Winston Fernando , @Iztok Polbog - Welcome to Microsoft Q&A and thanks for reaching out to us.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you.

I have reached out to our internal team regarding this issue, and I have confirmation that the product team is working on a fix for this and will release it in the next week or two.

Hope this helps. and please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions.

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Rutger Janssen 0 Reputation points

2024-04-29T09:05:47.2533333+00:00

We have the same problem. Where can we follow this problem further?
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Azure Arc enabled server Microsoft.SoftwareUpdateManagement.WindowsOsUpdateExtension folder is holding Gb's of logs for Updates. How do I disable this?

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