We were seeing high CPU usage (98-99%) for MonitoringHost.exe on many servers with managed agents in SCOM R2 across a mix of platforms (Windows 2003, 2008, virtual, physical, SQL, 32-bit, 64-bit) which would grind the server to a holt and dramatically affect multiple VMs if the affected server is a Hyper-V host. Our short term [...]

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I’ve often seen enterprise workstations have their CPU randomly spike to 100% usage for a few minutes, making the machine completely unusable. A quick look at the Task Manager shows svchost.exe being the culprit. 95% of the time, the below process will fix your problem. Create a batch file and put the command shown below into it. Download windowsupdateagent30-x86.exe [...]

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