Delete Update Files Wsus

How to remove/delete old updates on WSUS server This How-To is designed to show you how to most effectively clean your WSUS server of old, depreciated or superceded updates. This how-to assumes that you have already selected the correct update classifications, products, and languages for your environment. Remove declined updates from the WSUS Database. Clean out all the synchronization logs that have built up over time (configurable, with the default keeping the last 14 days of logs). Compress Update Revisions. Remove Obsolete Updates.

68 Shares I recently added Windows 10 to my WSUS Product and Classifications and got very surprised by the 100 GB of updates that was queued for download! Let’s learn how to clean up WSUS content folder. Unfortunately, cancelling the download queued is not that straight forward, so I decided to use the opportunity to clean up my WSUS content folder and reclaim my VMFS datastore at the same time. The reason why the updates where 100 GB was because I had all Classifications selected and an Automatic Approval Rule!

After the changes below the updates where only 1 GB. Lesson Learned, Be Careful with Automatic Approval Rules Clean Up WSUS Before you start make sure to disable your Automatic Approval Rule(s). I have a very nice script below that saved me 300% of downloads.

It’s also a good time to verify that only the Products and Languages you actually need are selected. From Update Files and Languages, make sure that you don’t have Express installation files selected. Let’s clean up WSUS by running the following commands. # EOF Open PowerShell ISE as Administrator and run the script. Do you belive that? Out of 6467 updates, 4179 where declined. Now run the Automatic Approval Rule to start the downloads.

Many people might argue that is unnecessary to run the wsusutil.exe reset command, simply because all updates will be re-downloaded. Well, you could always search and decline all updates you don’t want and then run the Server Cleanup Wizard, but its PITA. My WSUS folder went from 75 GB to 20 GB so I’m happy. Reclaim VMFS Datastore I’m not sure if you’re aware, but when you’re using Thin Provisioning it doesn’t matter if you delete unwanted files.

When the space has been alllocated it will stay that way until you do the following steps below. My WSUS folder was located on C: then moved to D: and finally E: To reclaim the space after all unnecessary files has been deleted run on all volumes.

Still getting error Error Occurred Exception Message: The specified string is invalid. Parameter name: ServerName at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy.CreateUpdateServer(Object[] args) at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy.GetUpdateServer(String serverName, Boolean useSecureConnection, Int32 portNumber) at GetUpdateServer(Object, Object[] ) at System.Management.Automation.MethodInformation.Invoke(Object target, Object[] arguments) at System.Management.Automation.DotNetAdapter.AuxiliaryMethodInvoke(Object target, Object[] arguments, MethodInformation methodInformation, Object[] originalArguments). I have not checked above solution, However Following command help me clean the WSUS server. Run all the command one by one – if you get any error like ” Invoke-WsusServerCleanup: Execution Timeout Expired. Re-run the command till it give you result.

I cleaned up around 250 GB Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupUnneededContentFiles Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -DeclineExpiredUpdates Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupObsoleteComputers Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupObsoleteUpdates Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupUnneededContentFiles Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CompressUpdates. Hi, the PS script is not working for me: Error Occurred Exception Message: Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed. PS C: Windows system32> $updateServer = [Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy]::getUpdateServer($updateSer ver1,$useSecureConnection,$portNumber) Exception calling “GetUpdateServer” with “3” argument(s): “The specified string is invalid.

I have an issue with my WSUS server and I would love your advice. In an effort to clean up the server I selected the option under “Update Files and Languages” to “Do not store updates files locally; computers install from Microsoft Update”. Since the status has been “Cannot save configuration because the server is still processing a previous configuration change”. My plan was to set that option, run the cleanup wizard to purge the updates and then set it back to storing updates locally. It’s been over 24hrs and the status is the same.

How to remove/delete old updates on WSUS server This How-To is designed to show you how to most effectively clean your WSUS server of old, depreciated or superceded updates. This how-to assumes that you have already selected the correct update classifications, products, and languages for your environment. Remove declined updates from the WSUS Database. Clean out all the synchronization logs that have built up over time (configurable, with the default keeping the last 14 days of logs). Compress Update Revisions. Remove Obsolete Updates.

68 Shares I recently added Windows 10 to my WSUS Product and Classifications and got very surprised by the 100 GB of updates that was queued for download! Let’s learn how to clean up WSUS content folder. Unfortunately, cancelling the download queued is not that straight forward, so I decided to use the opportunity to clean up my WSUS content folder and reclaim my VMFS datastore at the same time. The reason why the updates where 100 GB was because I had all Classifications selected and an Automatic Approval Rule!

After the changes below the updates where only 1 GB. Lesson Learned, Be Careful with Automatic Approval Rules Clean Up WSUS Before you start make sure to disable your Automatic Approval Rule(s). I have a very nice script below that saved me 300% of downloads.

It’s also a good time to verify that only the Products and Languages you actually need are selected. From Update Files and Languages, make sure that you don’t have Express installation files selected. Let’s clean up WSUS by running the following commands. # EOF Open PowerShell ISE as Administrator and run the script. Do you belive that? Out of 6467 updates, 4179 where declined. Now run the Automatic Approval Rule to start the downloads.

Many people might argue that is unnecessary to run the wsusutil.exe reset command, simply because all updates will be re-downloaded. Well, you could always search and decline all updates you don’t want and then run the Server Cleanup Wizard, but its PITA. My WSUS folder went from 75 GB to 20 GB so I’m happy. Reclaim VMFS Datastore I’m not sure if you’re aware, but when you’re using Thin Provisioning it doesn’t matter if you delete unwanted files.

When the space has been alllocated it will stay that way until you do the following steps below. My WSUS folder was located on C: then moved to D: and finally E: To reclaim the space after all unnecessary files has been deleted run on all volumes.

Still getting error Error Occurred Exception Message: The specified string is invalid. Parameter name: ServerName at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy.CreateUpdateServer(Object[] args) at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy.GetUpdateServer(String serverName, Boolean useSecureConnection, Int32 portNumber) at GetUpdateServer(Object, Object[] ) at System.Management.Automation.MethodInformation.Invoke(Object target, Object[] arguments) at System.Management.Automation.DotNetAdapter.AuxiliaryMethodInvoke(Object target, Object[] arguments, MethodInformation methodInformation, Object[] originalArguments). I have not checked above solution, However Following command help me clean the WSUS server. Run all the command one by one – if you get any error like ” Invoke-WsusServerCleanup: Execution Timeout Expired. Re-run the command till it give you result.

I cleaned up around 250 GB Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupUnneededContentFiles Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -DeclineExpiredUpdates Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupObsoleteComputers Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupObsoleteUpdates Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupUnneededContentFiles Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CompressUpdates. Hi, the PS script is not working for me: Error Occurred Exception Message: Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed. PS C: Windows system32> $updateServer = [Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.AdminProxy]::getUpdateServer($updateSer ver1,$useSecureConnection,$portNumber) Exception calling “GetUpdateServer” with “3” argument(s): “The specified string is invalid.

I have an issue with my WSUS server and I would love your advice. In an effort to clean up the server I selected the option under “Update Files and Languages” to “Do not store updates files locally; computers install from Microsoft Update”. Since the status has been “Cannot save configuration because the server is still processing a previous configuration change”. My plan was to set that option, run the cleanup wizard to purge the updates and then set it back to storing updates locally. It’s been over 24hrs and the status is the same.