Hi all
I recently noticed that the content store of our primary WSUS server increased from about 20 GB to 90 GB. A colleague of mine set up a secondary WSUS server as a downstream server, at first in autonomous mode, then in replica mode. The upstream server’s content store grew excessively ever since.
I used bitsadmin to look at the queue on the upstream server and to my surprise it was downloading updates for products which are not even selected there (e.g. Exchange 2007). I would like to understand why. Assuming the downstream server is in autonomous
mode and requires updates which the upstream server does not have, does the upstream server download these updates on behalf of the downstream server?
I would like to clean up the content store on the upstream server. I deleted the downstream servers, ran the cleanup tool and declined all superseded updates which are no longer needed. Unfortunately this did not make much difference. The upstream content store is still 87 GB. I am aware of the wsusutil /reset command, however, I would like to avoid downloading all updates from scratch. Is there a way to clean up this mess?
I would appreciate if someone could shed some light on this.
Thanks,
Stefan