Fix monitoring in MDT 2012 Update 1 (and MDT 2013 preview)

When enabling the (great) monitoring feature in MDT you create a service that runs in the background. However, if you have a C:\Temp folder on your server (only then), that service will start to log a lot of information to C:\Temp\WCF.log. 5 GB per day has been reported.

My recommendation is (thanks to Anders Ahl for research) to change the logging to:

1. Only log warnings, and not information events
2. Store the log file on another drive than C:

To do this you simply edit the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\Monitor\microsoft.bdd.monitorservice.exe.config file using notepad:

Change line 12 from

<source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing" propagateActivity="true">

To

<source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Warning, ActivityTracing" propagateActivity="true">

Change line 14 from

<add name="traceListener" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData="c:\temp\WCF.log" />

To

<add name="traceListener" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData="D:\MDTMonitoring\WCF.log" />

To activate the logging you also need to create the D:\MDTMonitoring folder

/ Johan