How to free spaces on WUSU server

Situation: The client find their WSUS server is out spaces.

Here are some suggestions to free spaces.

1. Make sure Update Files and Languages is configured to only download updates in languages which you support. To do that, open ASUS Console, go to Options>Update Files and Languages>Update Languages, make sure only check English in our case.

2. You may want to run ASUS Server Clearnup Wizard. To do that, go to ASUS Console>Options>ASUS Server Clearnup Wizard, follow the wizard to clean up.

3. Do not store update files locally

Go to Options>Update Files and Languages, check Do not store update files locally,.

4. Clean up WSUS by running the following commands:

net stop wsusservice

cd “C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools”

wsusutil.exe reset

echo Delete WSUS Folder Content

pause

net start wsusservice

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Bob Lin

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