WSUS Unnecessary Content Cleanup

Question

Dear Team

I want to clear WSUS unnecessarycontent by script:

• Connect to WSUS database
• Decline expired updates
• Decline superseded updates
• Delete obsolete updates (updates are deleted one by one to avoid timeouts)
• Delete unneeded content files

My WSUS Service in Windows Server 2012 R2 with WSUS 4.

Answer 1

Hi @MarufHossain-3174,

We could use this script in this article:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/WSUS-cleanup-script-7e019537

And the script runs WSUS cleanup tasks using stored procedures in WSUS database directly, avoiding timeout errors and WSUS service crash that may occur when using WSUS' Cleanup Wizard.

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