<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">To configure WSUS to store updates locally and if you want to minimize disk space, use the below configuration.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;"><br /></span></p>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oo-CjRhQ93Q/VZJte5_I_oI/AAAAAAAABB8/8Yl_dl0ocY8/s1600/wsus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oo-CjRhQ93Q/VZJte5_I_oI/AAAAAAAABB8/8Yl_dl0ocY8/s320/wsus.jpg" width="285" /></a></div>
<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">If you are certain that the above settings have been configured as such on your WSUS server (including any downstream servers) since the product was installed, then it is likely that the storage requirements on your WSUS server is accurate. The only thing you may want to try is running the Server Cleanup Wizard (WSUS console – Options – Server Cleanup Wizard) because there is an option to delete any EXPIRED updates.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">or RESET WSUS</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;"><br /></span></p>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">1) Correct any settings above or disapprove any unneeded updates.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">2) Close any open WSUS consoles.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">3) Go to Administrative Tools – Services and STOP the ;<b>Update Services</b> ;service.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">4) In Windows Explorer browse to the WSUSContent folder (typically D:WSUSWSUSContent or C:WSUSWSUSContent)</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">5) Delete ALL the files and folders in the WSUSContent folder.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">6) Go to Administrative Tools – Services and START the ;<b>Update Services</b> ;service.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">7) Open a command prompt and navigate to the folder: C:Program FilesUpdate ServicesTools.</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">8) Run the command ;<b>WSUSUtil.exe RESET</b></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">-This command tells WSUS to check each update in the database, and verify that the content is present in the WSUSContent folder. As it finds that the content is not present in the folder, it executes a BITS job to download the content from Microsoft. This process takes quite a bit of time and runs in the background.</p>
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<div style="font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;"><b>How do you tell when the process is complete?</b></div>
<div style="font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">Other than noticing that the WSUSContent folder is no longer growing you can also check the SoftwareDistribution.log:</div>
<div style="font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">C:Program FilesUpdate ServicesLogFilesSoftwareDistribution.log</div>
<div style="font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">When you start the reset process, you should see a line towards the bottom of the log which looks like this:</div>
<div style="font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">WsusService.13 ; ExecutionContext.runTryCode ; ; ; ; State Machine Reset Agent Starting</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;">After waiting for some time, check the log again and search for the text “State Machine Reset Agent Finished”</div>
<div style="font-size: 12.1104001998901px; line-height: 18.165599822998px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">WsusService.13 ; ExecutionContext.runTryCode ; ; ; ; State Machine Reset Agent Finished</span></div>
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