shtech

I am not sure if we are using WID and I'm not finding SSMS installed on our WSUS server. It's not installed (that I can see) on our Patch Manager server either.

I have already tried declining and got the same result.. back again... But I will try your other suggestions and see if removing the products I don;t want will work. Thanks.

To be honest, I have been so busy I haven't even had a chance to look at this much less try it out.... And I'm not really familiar with running this script (where, how, etc). I'm new to all of this... but thanks for the link.

I'm going to have to say no... Having "walked into" the task of maintaining Patch Manager after the previous staff member left, I have not yet learned how to do maintenance on the SPM DB or run the WSUS SQL cleanup script. I do, however, routinely run a server cleanup about once every other week. Should it be more often?

In my case, no, it is not with Third Party updates or under Software Publishing.

Thanks for the suggestion... But I am in Update Services > SERVERNAME > Updates... and deleting from All Updates. Most of what I am deleting is stuff from Microsoft, not Third Party either. It is very strange and has me scratching my head and rather frustrated with it all.

Unfortunately this does not help my situation. None of the updates I need to remove have ever been installed anywhere. They only show up in my Patch Manager console. I decline/delete them but they return the next day.

So yesterday afternoon I ran the Server Cleanup Wizard again, then proceeded to delete again (for the umpteenth time) all the updates that had reappeared (over 2000 of them), ran the Server Cleanup Wizard again... and today all the same updates are back.... UUGGHHHH!!!!!!! Am I the only one with this issue?

I have patches that I NEVER published, deleted them when they first appeared in my console (as they were not needed in our organization), and yet they reappear now daily no matter how many times I keep deleting them.