In my limited experience of wsus, it seems to download approved updates, whether needed or not.
I set it up at home, with no PC's in the console and it downloaded about 5 gig before I killed it. it was set to auto-approve Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com David Lum <david....@nwea.org> 16/03/2009 16:00 Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> To "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> cc Subject RE: WSUS -- How many Gigs is your server? Don't they get downloaded only once WSUS says they're needed by at least 1 machine? I would think that it would take approved + needed to = download to WSUS server. If not, wouldn?t the cleanup wizard keep deleting the same un-needed updates every month? The wizard might have logic that says ?deleted, don?t download again unless needed? but it would make more sense not to use the bandwidth in the first place unless you need it. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -----Original Message----- From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WSUS -- How many Gigs is your server? I'm constantly hanging out between 30 and 60 gigs. I think the difference between the big ones and the little ones is auto-approving updates and downloading approved updates. I have a couple of machines in a wsus test group that I auto-approve all critical updates. They don't get all the updates of course, but since they are all approved whether needed or not, they get downloaded. Every month I run the server cleanup wizard and it deletes 10-20 gigs. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WSUS -- How many Gigs is your server? Something's wrong. I've got XP + Vista + Windows Server 2003 + Windows Server 2008 + Exchange + SQL Server + Defender - all updates and SPs (no drivers) and I'm hovering around 10GB. I do regularly run the cleanup wizard, and I don't approve updates for ia64. There were some .NET SPs that you got every language version of (because they could all be installed on English versions of Windows). Maybe a few things like that? Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 13 March 2009 3:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: WSUS -- How many Gigs is your server? That's what I figured. I'm just going to rebuild it. It's an OLD build. It's down now, it's an ESX VM, so I'm copying it and expanding the C drive, but I think the only products I have selected are things like XP, Vista, and Windows 7 updates, Office 2003, and 2007. I think I have some misc things like the .net stuff and whatnot, but no server stuff. Something is obviously messed up it sounds like. Thanks guys. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thats waaay to big. The catalog isnt nearly that large - unless > perhaps you are downloading all the languages? > > -- > ME2 > > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jon D <rekcahp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My 35gig drive just filled up on my WSUS SP1 box. >> I tried running the WSUS cleanup wizard, and the disk cleanup wizard, >> but they didn't free much at all. >> I only have english selected, and I don't have products I don't use >> selected. 35 Gigs just seems like a lot... >> >> How many gigs is everyone elses WSUS server? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Jon >> >> >> >> . >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ==================================================================== http://www.quinn-insurance.com This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. 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