X-13 Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I currently have 116 security updates pending approval... 116! And if I turn on "needed count" they're all 0. Is it safe to just decline them? The seem to all be for XP/Office 2002.
3s-gtech Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Change your Products and Categories settings in WSUS - if you don't have those on site any more, you don't need your WSUS to distribute updates for them, taking up disk space.
X-13 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Posted February 23, 2015 Change your Products and Categories settings in WSUS - if you don't have those on site any more, you don't need your WSUS to distribute updates for them, taking up disk space. I just found that section. Trimmed it down to what we actually have... Can't remove old ones with the cleanup tool though. It keeps getting an error. Currently as about 36kb free on the deplotment share.
sted Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I just found that section. Trimmed it down to what we actually have... Can't remove old ones with the cleanup tool though. It keeps getting an error. Currently as about 36kb free on the deplotment share. one about node reset just keep doint it (do one tick box at a time on cleanup wizard it will eventually work
X-13 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Posted February 23, 2015 one about node reset just keep doint it (do one tick box at a time on cleanup wizard it will eventually work I finally got it to go through... ~300MB cleared. I'm calling shenanigans. It's using about 120GB at the moment and the're god knows how many language packs there...
sted Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I finally got it to go through... ~300MB cleared. I'm calling shenanigans. It's using about 120GB at the moment and the're god knows how many language packs there... the only way ive ever got it down to sensible levels tbh is to uninstall and reinstall cleanup seems to do a crummy job
rickjames Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Whilst this is a thing up the top of the tree... Is there any way of figuring out which updates supersedes another? Our install process involves our workstations pulling various Windows Updates for 8.1 that total to about 3gb worth, a lot of which I'm sure is completely unneccessary
X-13 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Posted February 23, 2015 the only way ive ever got it down to sensible levels tbh is to uninstall and reinstall cleanup seems to do a crummy job TBH, I shouldn't have the level of control I currently have... this is supposed to be a replica server. Another company is supposed to be dealing with this. Though, "set up auto-approve everything" with "only download on approval" is pants-on-head idiocy.
computer_expert Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Whilst this is a thing up the top of the tree... Is there any way of figuring out which updates supersedes another? Our install process involves our workstations pulling various Windows Updates for 8.1 that total to about 3gb worth, a lot of which I'm sure is completely unneccessary Right click the bar where it says title/classification/installed and make sure supersedence is ticked. It should show an icon to say what updates have been superseded. 1
rich_tech Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 (edited) Right click the bar where it says title/classification/installed and make sure supersedence is ticked. It should show an icon to say what updates have been superseded. Fair play, never considered that as an option or avenue to try, excellent stuff. On a plus note, 8.1 has a horrible amount of updates to install now already it seems and don't get me started on Windows 7 ! takes ages to cycle through updates on there when we have it rebuild a machine. Edited February 23, 2015 by rich_tech
X-13 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Posted February 23, 2015 Who would have figured that thousands of AUTO-APPROVED updates for OS's we don't use would take up a bunch of space for no raison?!
Norphy Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Fair play, never considered that as an option or avenue to try, excellent stuff. On a plus note, 8.1 has a horrible amount of updates to install now already it seems and don't get me started on Windows 7 ! takes ages to cycle through updates on there when we have it rebuild a machine. You're not wrong but Microsoft have been issuing new media for Windows 8.1 each time a major update rollup is released. The last media was released on the 16th December according to the MVLS. That lessens the impact a bit at least
Michael Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Best advice is remove/uninstall WSUS and follow my guide how to do it properly!
rich_tech Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I cleared off 10gb of data from our WSUS server here (only windows, server and office stuff highlighted) I want to see the return of Service Packs on their OS myself, at the moment its in excess of 150+ updates on a rebuild (think the real figure is a fair bit higher again)
3s-gtech Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I'm seeing well in excess of 210 updates to a fresh built Windows 7 SP1 machine, but that does include Office 2013 and .NET updates. It is a bit nuts.
john Posted February 24, 2015 Posted February 24, 2015 Also find and decline all the Itanium updates as these are bundled in with the OS rather than separate unless you have Itanium kit which is highly unlikely that will fish a load of space back.
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