How to stop WSUS server downloading.
I went overboard with the automatic approvals one of my test servers, selecting every language and category. Not surprisingly huge amounts of disk space where being eaten up.
Naively thought that resetting the language selection to English only and resetting Approval Rules to Critical & Security Updates only that this massive download would stop. What was I thinking everything had been approved so of course the download would continue.
Often a fair bit of searching I found nothing apart from the fact that I was not the only one with the problem.
How do you stop the download:
Worked it out for myself
- Start Windows Server Update Service
- Expand Updates and select All Updates
- Set Approval to Approved
- Set Status to Any
- Click on a update then Ctrl+A to select everything
- Right click on any update and select stop download.
- You can restart the download in the same way
Now short of reinstalling WSUS how am I going to reset the download to the minimum set I require?
There was some some instructions about clearing out the download folder and resetting WSUS … I’ll give it a go later and update the blog.
Further Information:
Managing WSUS 3.0 from the Command Line
Purge / Delete corrupted or Un-needed patches on WSUS Server
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