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You might find these useful <br />
<a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/WSUS-Clean-Powershell-102f8fc6" rel="ugc nofollow">https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/WSUS-Clean-Powershell-102f8fc6</a><br />
<a href="https://xenappblog.com/2016/how-to-clean-up-wsus/" rel="ugc">https://xenappblog.com/2016/how-to-clean-up-wsus/</a><br />
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If you only have Windows 10 and Server 2016, then updates from 2015 are &quot;unlikely&quot; to be needed...
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I did this exercise last month using this:<br />
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<a href="https://www.stefanobordoni.cloud/wsus-how-to-keep-local-content-folder-under-control/" rel="ugc">https://www.stefanobordoni.cloud/wsus-how-to-keep-local-content-folder-under-control/</a><br />
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You just need to be careful and do not delete the updates that supersede other updates, but only updates that are superseded themselves. &nbsp;If you group them by the superseded icon column and look at the 3 different icons, you'll see what I mean:<br />
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<a href="https://www.tecknowledgebase.com/43/how-to-identify-and-decline-superseded-updates-in-wsus/" rel="ugc">https://www.tecknowledgebase.com/43/how-to-identify-and-decline-superseded-updates-in-wsus/</a>
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Just to be clear, the only ones you should be deleting from the above article are bolded:<br />
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No icon: update doesn’t supersede another one nor is it superseded by an update<br />
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Blue square on top: this update supersedes another update, these updates you do not want to clean…!!<br />
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<b>Blue square in the middle: this update has been superseded by another update, and superseded another update as well, this is an example of an update you may want to clean (decline)<br />
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Blue square in the right below corner: this update has been superseded by another update, this is an example of an update you may want to clean (decline)</b>
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Did you set the language to English only? Did you remove other languages?<br />
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Use cleanup in PoshWSUS Powershell library<br />
<a href="https://github.com/proxb/PoshWSUS" rel="ugc">https://github.com/proxb/PoshWSUS</a>
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I have a WSUS server that has grown exponentially, even when i run the WSUS server clean up wizard, there is no difference. this server is set up on a virtual machine. is there a way i can retire old updates? &nbsp;to create more space on my server ? i can see 2015 updates. can i delete these &nbsp;updates? &nbsp;Please i need assistance&gt;
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I have a WSUS server that has grown exponentially, even when i run the WSUS server clean up wizard, there is no difference. this server is set up on a virtual machine. is there a way i can retire old updates?  to create more space on my server ? i can see 2015 updates. can i delete these  updates?  Please i need assistance>

My WSUS server database  grows  so fast, and Cleanup wizard not working.

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