If you need to move your WSUS content files to a new hard drive on the same server do the following:
- On the new drive create a folder named WSUS and a subfolder named WSUSContent
- Launch a CMD window as an Administrator
- CD to C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools\
- Type wsusutil.exe movecontent %content path% %logfile%
Example: wsusutil.exe movecontent f:\WSUS\WSUSContent f:\WSUS\wsus.log
In my case it took about 30 mins to move 60+GB.
Note that MOVECONTENT does not move it only copies, so you need to delete the originals if you want the space back (see steps 5-9 below!) - Rename your old content source to something like C:\WSUS\OLD-WsusContent
- Start (or restart) the UPDATE SERVICES service
- Start the UPDATE SERVICS
- Make sure your WSUS Management Console and play around to confirm it is functional
- OPTIONAL: Delete the original content folder that you renamed in step 5
Thanks to
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939905(v=ws.10).aspx
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6 Comments
John · February 18, 2022 at 12:55 pm
Worked on Server 2016. Good article.
Ian Matthews · February 21, 2022 at 5:46 pm
Glad to hear it. Thanks John!
Mohammad · September 17, 2018 at 9:17 pm
Thank you very much!!!
Good hints . . .
oceansgr · February 22, 2018 at 1:19 am
Thank you for instruction. Works good!
Prat · March 6, 2017 at 10:05 am
Good Article.. did it on Windows 2008 R2, worked fine
Lee · February 3, 2017 at 10:53 am
Thank you for this article, it was very helpful.