Hi , We have a 2016 server running , C:\Windows\System32\Configuration\ConfigurationStatus has over 75,000 files in it totaling about 80 GB. Is this folder supposed to be cleared out automatically by the DSC process or do we need to do that manually? Is it safe to delete? I am coming from the Lin…

Supposed to be deleted yes, the LCM has a the retention period set but is not honoured (iirc). Cleaning manually is fine, I usually clean things older than ~7 days.

Thanks for the quick answer, I will delete manually the files that older than 7 days. Last question, What are these files used for?

Those files are the log created by the LCM to be sent to the report server. They should be sent anyway if the report server is configured, and you can still access unstructured data in the event logs.

I resolved this within my DSC configuration itself by adding a (slightly unortodox, but it works) Script resource to the configuration: Import-DscResource -ModuleName PSDscResources # Clean up DSC ConfigurationStatus folder to remove files older than 10 days - see https://forums.powershell.org/t/…

ConfigurationStatus folder filling up.

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mikemo1 September 22, 2020, 2:39pm 5

Ok, thank you very much!

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