Azure AD Connect MonitoringAgent High CPU – Server 2016

So… I’m running an AD on an Intel NUC, and after a recent set of updates the NUC started to sound like a hairdryer!
 
 The ESXi Host was reporting some pretty fantastic CPU numbers (considering there’s not a lot of workloads on this yet, 3 VMs doing not a lot).

 
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When having a look at the VM, I see most of the CPU being taken up by ‘Microsoft.Online.Reporting.Monitoring.Agent.Startup’. This is a component of Azure AD Connect, which I’m using to sync user accounts into Office 365 for my Lab.
 

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