I've gone through several forums and Technet posts about how to resolve this issue. I've finally resolved to just create a new VM to handle the WSUS service in hopes to stop the hemorrhaging every Microsoft Tuesday in disk space.
To my dismay, even with a brand new installation of WSUS, we still have a massive amount of space taken up, and before anyone suggests checking the obvious:
- We have no downstream servers setup
- We only have one language selected: English
- We are not downloading express installation files
- I run the server cleanup-wizard monthly
We are synchronizing only on the following products:
- Office 2007
- Office 2010
- Office 2013
- SQL Server 2012
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2008
- SQL Server 2005
- Systems Management Server 2003
- Windows 7
- Windows 8.1
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008 Server Manager Dynamic Installer
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server Manager - Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Dynamic Installer
Syncing and auto-approving the following classifications:
- Critical Updates
- Definition Updates
- Security Updates
And this is our WSUS environment:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Update Services v3.2.7600.226
With all of that said, the wsuscontent folder is taking up 84.9 GB. Before this last MS Tuesday it was ~80 GB.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
