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cleaning up WSUS

I have SBS2008. I want to clean up WSUS by removing the updates that have already been applied. This is taking up over 90 Gb of space on the server. How do I go about this?
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First, decline the updates that you don't want.
Many will be already declined automatically.
Then download the WSUS Server Debug Tools from the WSUS Page.

You can remove old downloaded updates with "wsusdebugtool.exe /tool:purgeunneededfiles"
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Note for canon:
The wsusutil parameter deleteunneededrevisions  doesn't exist on WSUS 3.1

Instead, the Cleanup Wizard is available from the WSUS console if you want to avoid the download.
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Thanks for all the really great ideas and links!