Wsus Delete Unused Updates Timeout

• Wsus Delete Old Updates

However over the time the WSUS store can grow to really big size especially if you are downloading, deploying patches for different OS such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and server OS the size can easily go over few 10’s of GB.In WSUS, you can delete unused updates and update revisions; computers not contacting the server, unneeded update files, expired updates and superseded updates. In order to accomplish this, you have to manually go through the.To run the Server Cleanup Wizard:.

Wsus Delete Old Updates

You may wish to run the WSUS Server Cleanup Wizard prior to these step. I often found that running the 'Unused updates and update revisions' separately from the others is a good idea. I often select the 2nd,3rd,4th, and 5th options, run it, then re-run it with only the 1st option selected. Does 'Deleting unused updates' get stuck? Nov 22, 2016  Fix: WSUS Server Cleanup Wizard hangs/stalls when deleting unused updates 22 November 2016 November 22, 2016 Jake Billo Posts Side note: several years ago Kayla caught me talking in my sleep, muttering something about “you’ve got to check the boxes!”.

But in the interim, I need to do everything possible to decline updates in WSUS to reduce the catalog size. At the start of these steps I had 6200 un-declined updates in WSUS. The guidance I got from Microsoft was to target between 4000 -5000 updates in the catalog. But the lower the number the better off we would be.

UPDATE JUNE 2018: You may be interested in out 2018 How to Fix WSUS tips:.If your Windows Server Update Services WSUS is having problems there are five easy things to do to correct it:. Restart the three WSUS related services:a) WSUS SERVICEb) WSUS CERTIFICATE SERVICEc) WINDOWS INTERNAL DATABASE (unless your DB is SQL, in which case, restart your SQL database). Run a Script Microsoft has written. Run a command. Expand the memory in the IIS APPLICATION POOL WSUS RECYCLING to something greater than 1.8GB (1843200), then perform an IISRESET (or just restart the WWW service).

This has not helped me but I see from other blogs that it has helped some so give it a shot!. If you still have problems check the logs on your clients. As of Windows 10, this is a real problem to do, you can read post for full details but the crux of it is, open a powershell and enter the two commands below.wuauclt /detectnow.Get-WindowsUpdateLog -LogPath C:windowsupdate.log. Try to if you think the file system is corrupted.

Give up, uninstall then reinstall WSUS. This is not as big a job as it seems in most environments.