Thanks Nick that’ll work nicely. Could someone help clarify this bit of text that’s mentioned in the article:
Expired updates still show up in the console, but they are marked as expired, and have the following icon showing this state: They will remain in the console for 7 days following expiration, where the next process around cleanup starts. After 7 days, expired updates that are not associated with active deployments, are tomb-stoned. This means they are no longer visible in the UI. So I have a bunch of updates sitting in software update packages that are expired and not deployed but they’ve been sitting there forever. So is it the case that when it says expired updates not associated with active deployments are tomb stoned, is the definition of an “active deployment” an update not associated with a SUG or software update package? If that’s the case I assume for those updates I can just delete them out of the packages, wait for ConfigMgr to remove the updates from DPs and then I can run the script in that article to clean up the data source. Daniel. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gailfus, Nick Sent: Tuesday, 18 August 2015 4:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] The correct way to remove non-deployed updates from packages Clean up script is at the bottom of this blog post. http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2012/04/12/software-update-content-cleanup-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx Nick Gailfus Computer Technician p. 602.953.2933 f. 602.953.0831 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>| www.leonagroup.com<http://www.leonagroup.com/> [Image removed by sender.] On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Ryan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Oh, and here is one that I wrote. I gave instructions on how to make this run after every sync with Microsoft: http://ephingadmin.com/automagically-clear-expired-updates-from-software-update-groups/ On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Ryan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This removes all expired updates: http://www.scconfigmgr.com/2014/11/18/remove-expired-and-superseded-updates-from-a-software-update-group-with-powershell/ On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Corkill, Daniel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Nick, Did you manage to find that script? Daniel. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Gailfus, Nick Sent: Friday, 14 August 2015 11:25 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] The correct way to remove non-deployed updates from packages Microsoft has a script for it in their technet blogs. I can find it when I'm work tomorrow as I have used it before. Sent from my Android phone. On Aug 13, 2015 5:55 PM, "Corkill, Daniel" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: In the third instalment of my software updates threads I want to ask about cleaning up packages of updates that are not deployed ☺ Basically due to ADRs with criteria that is too broad I end up with SUGs being created that contain many updates that are not needed. While they’re removed from the SUG they remain in the updates package(s) and to minimise space I want to remove updates sitting in packages that aren’t deployed. I thought it’d be as simple as searching these packages for updates that aren’t deployed and deleting them but in the past I’ve had poor success with this and the packages become corrupt and cause all sorts of headaches. I just want to verify my process is correct. Daniel. ********************************************************************* This email, including any attachment, is confidential to the intended recipient. 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