WSUS 3.1 and purging data

[Burnsy2023]

Ok, I have WSUS 3.1 installed on my home server. I rather stupidly set it to download driver updates. 18,000 updates later I now decide I'd rather avoid that due to making the SQL database/content store too big. I've declined the updates (that took an eternity) but want to purge them from the database. How do I do this? The server cleanup wizard doesn't help.

Cheers

 

[teaboy5]

I find it odd that you have WSUS at home! Is there really any need?

Found this on EE

its relates to 2.0 but it might work

You will find the 'Server Diagnostic Tool' link (wsus server debug tool) on this page:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/bb466192.aspx

At the command prompt (in the same folder) --> type WsusDebugTool.exe /ToolurgeUnnneededFiles

You might also want to ensure that English is your only langauge selected (if that suites your scenario).

Hope that helps,

 

[Burnsy2023]

I find it odd that you have WSUS at home! Is there really any need?

It's related to this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17994423 , but we've got about 10 machines here so it saves on bandwidth.

At the command prompt (in the same folder) --> type WsusDebugTool.exe /ToolurgeUnnneededFiles

You might also want to ensure that English is your only langauge selected (if that suites your scenario).

Done both of those to no effect.

 

[Smackova]

Easiest way is to uninstall, and reinstall.

WSUS can be flaky, although it has improved.

If its a home job, redoing the settings should only take a few minutes.

Best advice I can offer sorry!

 

[Lanz]

I had the same problem, and I just deleted everything and started again. (but this time had the database run on a remote SQL server)

 

[Rob7865]

Hi

Try this: http://www.codeplex.com/WSUS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=16459

Rob