How to run the WSUS Server Cleanup Wizard from command-line

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:34:06 +0000

When running the WSUS Server Cleanup Wizard from the MMC snap-in, it can occur that you receive the following WSUS database error:

Error: Database Error
An error occurred when trying to perform a database operation. This can happen if the database is very busy, if the database service is stopped, if the connection to the database is lost, of if the Post-Installation task is not completed successfully. Please contact your system administrator if the problem persists.

Click Reset Server Node to try to connect to the server again.

If you haven’t performed the cleanup in a long time, then this can happen. So you might decide to read through the manual of the wsusutil.exe tool where you think that the deleteunneededrevisions switch will resolve all your problems, however, it seems that the wsusutil.exe parameter deleteunneededrevisions doesn’t exist on WSUS 3.1.

Luckily, you can achieve the same thing using powershell. The advantages here are:\

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How to run the WSUS Server Cleanup Wizard from command-line