[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Cleaning up WSUS - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Tue, Aug 5 2008 18:31 bradley

Cleaning up WSUS

So what maintenance should we be doing each month and we're not on our WSUS's?

Les Connor recommends these:

In WSUS v3 SP1, it's a wizard run from the 'options' page of the management console.  Click on that Server clean up wizard...
And then do the clean up ...one at a time.  I've been running that "Unused updates and update revisions" all day and it's still going.
 
In WSUS v2, it's command line only... more info here:
 
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# re: Cleaning up WSUS

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:28 AM by Gary Dikkema

This is a slow proxcess. Been having the same problems with NO performance reports and was looking for a solution.

Sat at ~ 30% for hours yesterday until I rebooted as that was the only way I could kill it.

So today we're redoing this - one option checked at a time.

If this worked for Les it ought to work for anyone. <VBG>

# re: Cleaning up WSUS

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:19 AM by HandyAndy

I actually run it quarterly and do them all at once. It only takes a few minutes if you do it regularly on a reasonable system (3 or 4 gb of memory).

If you have not done it in a long time it can take hours.

# re: Cleaning up WSUS

Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:15 AM by Philip

Pentium D 3.4GHz, 4GB RAM, RAID 1, SBS 2K3 R2 Premium with all the goodies.

The process was started at 15:30 yesterday. The WSUS SQL process has kept one core pinned (100%) since it was started. The I/O is huge!

Since this one is our SBS Box, we will leave it alone to see what happens ... it will be replaced by Swing shortly.

The other box we have this problem on is a similar setup at a client site, so we will be doing the process one at a time.

Definitely an item to add to the monthly management setup.

Philip