{"id":1720,"date":"2013-11-26T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obieta.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2013-11-26T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:38:20","slug":"wsus-cleanup-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"WSUS Cleanup Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my WSUSWsusContent directory has slowly been filling up, and it finally reached about 130GB in size. I run the Server Cleanup Wizard religiously, and I&#8217;d see a few hundred megs be freed up here and there, but the folder just kept growing in size.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I found this guy&#8217;s help on the Microsoft forum and I wanted to repost it here so that everyone could benefit. I just ran through a bunch of updates and freed up 41GB(!) after about 10 minutes worth of work (selecting updates).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add the Supersedence flag column to your All Updates view.<\/li>\n<li>Set the filter criteria to Approval=&#8221;Approved&#8221; and Status=&#8221;Any&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Sort by the supersedence flag and for all updates with Installed\/NotApplicabled=100% that are superseded &#8230;. select them and DECLINE them.<\/li>\n<li>Rerun the Server Cleanup Wizard with only the &#8220;Delete files&#8230;&#8221; option selected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my WSUSWsusContent directory has slowly been filling up, and it finally reached about 130GB in size. I run the Server Cleanup Wizard religiously, and I&#8217;d see a few hundred megs be freed up here and there, but the folder just kept growing in size. Finally I found this guy&#8217;s help on the Microsoft forum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obieta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}