WSUS (Server 2016) and powershell
I find myself in powershell more often that not these days, and sometimes using the GUI can be painfully slow or time-out. Firing up the homelab, I found this happening with WSUS. It had a lot of updates to chew through even though the VM had only been switched off for a couple of months. Step up powershell! Show all the commands available in the Update Services module Get-Command -Module UpdateServices Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -CleanupObsoleteUpdates -CleanupUnneededContentFiles -DeclineExpiredUpdates -DeclineSupersededUpdates -Verbose Thats should do a cleanup. Kick of a sync and show the progress (Get-WsusServer).GetSubscription().StartSynchronization() (Get-WsusServer).GetSubscription().GetSynchronizationProgress() Currently this is failing and I've still to check out why - the error claims "SoapException: Fault occurred InvalidCookie" More on that after some lunch! Update: After fixing lunch for jr and him deciding to have all the soup, it got