Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. Edited by mikegalbicka Tuesday, October 18, AM. Monday, October 17, PM. Thanks for your feedback Lawrence. Both answers were expected.
The reason I have never declined updates is I have had a hard time coming up with a good procedure. Even after reading the online documentation it still seems fuzzy to me.
Is there any Best Practice Procedure available that documents how to do this step by step? I've discussed this process many times in this forum and in webcasts. Tuesday, October 18, PM. Once an update is declined will it ever show as needed again Not unless you set it's approval back to NotApproved.
If you were synchronizing those products, and those products are now permanently retired from your enterprise, there is no value in retaining that content as a notDeclined update.
I would treat Service Packs just as any other superseded update. Marked as answer by mikegalbicka Wednesday, October 19, PM. Wednesday, October 19, PM. Option 1: uninstall and re-install fresh This one.
I have never declined any updates myself btw.. You must perform regular maintenance on old approvals -- at a minimum this must include removing approvals for updates that no longer are being actively deployed.
Ideally, since it's exactly the same number of keystrokes, you should Decline those updates. Marked as answer by mikegalbicka Thursday, October 20, AM. Thanks for all your clear answers Lawrence. You have been a big help. If you could stick this info to the top of the board or put it in the FAQ's it might help keep you from having to repeat it so much. I did a lot of searching before asking so your previous answers weren't easily found.
Just a thought. If you could stick this info to the top of the board or put it in the FAQ's I am, in fact, working on a FAQ for the forum, which will be sticky posted to the top of the mesage list. One can only hope. A reflection on the less-than-optimal search engine used in these forums.
No such luck. Thursday, October 20, PM. Cheers, David. Friday, June 27, AM. Shortly after this thread was last active, I was acquired by SolarWinds, and shortly after that we created PatchZone. I've published a lot of this "FAQ" information as blog posts to that site. If you know of anything that's missing, please let me know. I don't know about "conflicting"; the process is pretty straight forward. But it has been hard to find. Truth is, until a couple of years ago it wasn't even required, but the voluminous number of updates now published in the catalog make it necessary.
I posted a series of blog articles at patchzone. A critical observation, in fact. This is why only updates that are superseded should ever be declined. Updates that are NOT superseded should not be declined, but merely left in a NotApproved state so that if a computer is introduced to the network that requires one of those updates, you would be able to readily determine that fact. Actually, no. Only if you explicitly decline an update, or if the Server Cleanup Wizard declines an update, will the files associated with that update be physically removed from the filesystem.
If you merely remove the approvals, the files previously downloaded will remain. In order for the Server Cleanup Wizard to decline an update it must either be expired or superseded.
Task is not so complicated. To delete old encrypted content and then download new one following actions are needed to perform:. So first go there and then use wsusutil reset comand. New tree of content should be already build.
Time needed to download all content depends of amount of patches and network bandwidth available. WsusUtil tool has a lot of possibilities to use. On of them are already posted at my blog migration WSUS content to another disk. Here also you can find full description of reset switch used in our cases:. You use this command if you store updates locally on your WSUS server, and you want to ensure that the metadata information stored in your WSUS database is accurate.
If update files are missing or have been corrupted, WSUS downloads the update files again. WSUS logs everything it does. Over time, this can eat a lot of space in the database with surprisingly few workstations. If you are concerned, and have the means, it would be prudent to back this file up first. To put that another way: This worked for me, your mileage may vary. If you're less cavalier than me, and care about reporting on recent activity, you can substitute a "delete from This is a slow step which you may want to run overnight.
Where data has been deleted from the database, this will not be reflected in the file size until the file is shrunk. It is now effectively full of holes and needs defragging. The next day, you should find you have a file on disk that is approximately the same size you told Management Studio to shrink it to. Check you can connect to it from the WSUS admin tool.
Run any updates and do any approvals, then run the "reset" command again from here to persuade it to re-download any updates it needs. If you think the database is going to grow out of hand again quite quickly, consider moving it to somewhere better than your system drive. Here are some reasonable instructions on how to do this using the sqlcmd. Any thoughts on how to get it to shrink more than just a few MB? Yes, that doesn't sound like much of a shrink, does it.
Did you have any problems opening the database and cleaning out the log tables Step 4 onwards, above? To get any major shrinkage, you first need to remove some actual redundant data. In the blog above, I only describe my experiences removing obviously redundant "event" log data. There may be some other good candidates to delete or truncate.
If you find any, please let me know :- -Oli. Nick Another way to get more breathing room is via the bad things that happen to tempdb. Navigate to the appropriate folder. Rename the tempdb. LDF file to tempdb. A new tempdb. This freed up nearly a GB for me.
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