We're seeing a bunch of event viewer errors that are generated multiple times a second for the VisualCronService. The event id is 0 and the error message is:

GetMaxJobInstance->Failed with error: System.FormatException: Unrecognized Guid format. at System.Guid.GuidResult.SetFailure(ParseFailureKind failure, String failureMessageID, Object failureMessageFormatArgument, String failureArgumentName, Exception innerException) at System.Guid.TryParseGuid(String g, GuidStyles flags, GuidResult& result) at System.Guid..ctor(String g) at OBOKIIHBDBPMCFALPGECCIFHCDJPEDKODDGK.NFMCAMDOGBCBCKKAEOJICMPGMOLBJPKAAHOI.IOMCEHALENFPHACPMPCMCFCJGCKDCHLNFFIH(SqlConnection , String , Int32 )

I've searched these forums and online but can't find anything as to what would be cause visualcron to log this to the event viewer. Any suggestions?

This seems to be related to SQL Task and in particular when you execute a SQL Job. I am thinking that you may not have SQL server in English format.

Please run this query on the server:

SELECT step_name FROM [msdb].[dbo].[sysjobhistory]

Then post the result in paranthesis that you get.

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We ran the query you posted and we got a result set of 3402 items of which 1208 of the results had parenthesis and those were all the same "(Job Outcome)"

Are you sure it is a capital O on Outcome? If yes, please try this build: https://www.visualcron.c....aspx?g=posts&t=7901 

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Sorry, I typed it in, it is lower case o (Job outcome), also we're on 8.2.9

Sorry, I typed it in, it is lower case o (Job outcome), also we're on 8.2.9

I would install latest build on a test machine to see if it is working better.

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