I think you're getting caught up in the terminology. 'Approved for removal' is used to uninstall a previously installed update from client computers where the update is causing problems. Pretty much a removal mechanism to pull back a bad patch. It tells clients to purge themselves of the update - it doesn't tell WSUS to purge the update from WSUS. If your goal is to purge a particular update from WSUS, decline the update(s) and run the cleanup wizard or OverDrive's script (I prefer his script as it does a much better job) If indeed you had an update you needed to pull back from clients, the process would be: Approve for removal (which you've already done) In the console updates view, right click the column header and be sure installed count and no status count are both displayed.

Then you wait - to do it right, all clients must check in, remove the update if necessary, then check in AGAIN to confirm they have removed the update When the installed count is 0 (it's been removed from every machine that had it) and the no status count is also 0 (all clients have checked in) you can then DECLINE the update and run the wizard or script to get it out of WSUS. If you read through the description in the script, it tells you what it's doing. It is 90% everything that can be done in the GUI, just done via powershell for scheduling.

Feb 14, 2018  Navigate to the WSUSContent folder and press Shift-Delete. This will delete the entire folder. Then open a command prompt and navigate to the Program Files Update Services Tools folder and execute the command 'WSUSUtil reset'. Introductory mycology alexopoulos pdf writer. This will force the WSUS server to flag all approved for install updates as needing the update package downloaded.

There are only 4 things that cannot - the SQL Maintenance (which MS recommends, but never included it in WSUS. Yea.), Clearing out the Sync Logs - don't need to do this but you will wait forever for the sync logs area to load as it never purges anything, and the SQL to get rid of all the 'drivers' updates - you can do this through powershell or the GUI, but it's easier done with SQL Code. And lastly, removal of declined updates from the actual database - This is not done via any WSUS method, and I argue that it should as there is no reason to actually keep the declined record in the database for ever. The actual updates do get expunged but the record of the update being in the system, and declined is still there. My script removes those quarterly by default. Everything else can be done manually via the GUI, and then running server cleanup wizard (SCW). Follow the instructions in the post and subsequent links within and it will do everything my script does manually, not automatically.

I think you're getting caught up in the terminology. 'Approved for removal' is used to uninstall a previously installed update from client computers where the update is causing problems. Pretty much a removal mechanism to pull back a bad patch. It tells clients to purge themselves of the update - it doesn't tell WSUS to purge the update from WSUS. If your goal is to purge a particular update from WSUS, decline the update(s) and run the cleanup wizard or OverDrive's script (I prefer his script as it does a much better job) If indeed you had an update you needed to pull back from clients, the process would be: Approve for removal (which you've already done) In the console updates view, right click the column header and be sure installed count and no status count are both displayed. Then you wait - to do it right, all clients must check in, remove the update if necessary, then check in AGAIN to confirm they have removed the update When the installed count is 0 (it's been removed from every machine that had it) and the no status count is also 0 (all clients have checked in) you can then DECLINE the update and run the wizard or script to get it out of WSUS.