WSUS - Removing all updates to do with XP?

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Is there a way to remove all the updates either previously installed or unapproved from the list?

All our machines are now windows 7 + office 2010 with about 85% of the servers on server 2008R2, i'd rather remove anything to do with XP/office2003/Server2003 from the list of previously synced updates so i can see exactly what applies to us today

I've removed them from the selection lists and attempted the server cleanup but that didn't get rid of the things i unticked
 
Ah crap and that doesn't work for what i want to do

My server tells me it has just over 3000 updates on it, about 2500 of those are XP/Server2003/Office2003 and i don't want them anymore, but it won't remove them even with the cleanup util :(


Might just wipe the WSUS install and start again
 
Have you told WSUS not to download anymore of the XP upates (decline them), it may deem them as required if you still download new ones.

Also, I think the command is: WsusDebugTool.exe /Tool:PurgeUnneededFiles

I know this or some itiration of it works with the latest version of wsus as I used it very recently.
 
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I've unselected them from the list of "products and classifications" if that's what you mean

I don't have a "Wsusdebugtool.exe", wsusutil.exe is the only tool i have
 
Theres a search box at the top right of the WSUS console normally if its WSUS 3.0 and I use that to search for XP or whatever else I want to remove. You can highlight all the updates it finds and you can decline them all. Once youve done that then you can complete the cleanup wizard and it should then show you how much space youve saved!

Alternatively you can wipe it and reinstall lol
 
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