What is the GTMProbe user agent?

I was investigating why a cloud service that was supposed to be unused was receiving traffic, and upon looking at the IIS logs I noticed the majority of the requests were coming from a web client using the following user agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; GTMProbe 1.0)

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Azure scheduled maintenance for cloud services – September 19, 2014

The Azure management portal is showing a notification for a scheduled maintenance operation that will cause cloud services to experience a brief outage. I haven’t seen this posted publicly anywhere and wanted to help make this known. I am copying the details as shown in the Azure management portal.

If your cloud service is temporarily unavailable today, it could be due to a maintenance window starting in 1.5 hours from now.

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