One of our clients where we monitor their server was receiving an error that their Remote and Routing service had stopped. It was a first for us. I couldn’t think of anything that would have caused this.

When I looked at the Event logs I found that the HDD was near it’s capacity. I searched the drive for any content that could be cleared up. Usually the temp folder, update uninstall folders, etc.

I then realized that the “WsusContent” folder was near 13 GB. Whoa!!! That was quite a bit.

The first step was all I needed to reduce the size… here they are:

Based on my research, WSUS Server will not automatic purge old and unneeded updates, so this kind of large WSUS folder issue is general. I suggest we try the following steps to see if we can resolve this issue:
1. Use “WsusDebugTool.exe /Tool:PurgeUnneededFiles” command to purge unused files.

You can download the tool from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/bb466192.aspx

Note: The Server Diagnostic Tool.

2. Use WSUSutil command with movecontent option to change the file system location where the WSUS Server stores update files. For more info, please refer to:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/2686bd2b-910a-479b-961e-cea2a20280241033.mspx?mfr=true

Hope this helps!!

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