Clear third-party updates

Question

Hi all,

I have too many third-party updates in All Software Updates in SCCM console, now I want to delete them from the console because I do not need them anymore, any guidance how could I clear the third-party updates?

Answer 1

Hi, @nick yoni

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.

To clear third-party updates from the SCCM console, first we need to unsubscribe from the catalog. To unsubscribe from a catalog, right-click on the catalog in the Third-Party Software Update Catalogs node and select Unsubscribe, but the existing updates aren't removed.

To remove the existing updates, we may filter all the third-party updates in WSUS console, and decline them, then the updates will change to expired status in SCCM console and will be removed automatically after 7 days.

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Answer 2

IMO, patchmypc.com has some very good guides around managing 3rd party updates, even if you do not use their products.

https://patchmypc.com/wsus-configuration-and-clean-up-your-complete-guide (near the bottom of this guide following the configuration section, is the cleanup section on how to do that)

https://patchmypc.com/clean-up-third-party-updates-from-the-wsus-updateservicespackages-folder