I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea of how large my WSUS content folder should be? We have one upstream server and 18 downstream servers. I noticed the other day my WSUS folder was over 250GB. After reading online I've found conflicting ideas on whether this is normal or not. I've been running a clean up on each server every month with patch manager, but I don't think it's getting rid of all that much stuff. I was reading about having to decline old approved updates and any superseeded updates to really get the cleanup to delete anything. I also thought that if i cleaned up the content folder on my upstream server shouldn't it get cleaned up on the downstream servers as well once they sync back to the upstream server?
Just a little confused as to why the folder is so large we are pulling win7, 2008, 2012, win10, 2016 and office updates. My console shows 20,000 total updates the majority of them declined, but they don't seem to be getting cleaned up.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance just trying to get this under control.