Not since the SUS 1.0 days. We got a new dedicated WSUS server with tons
of HD space when 2.0 came out. I've seen some posts about moving the
content, but I can't give you the solution off the top of my head.
ISA_MAN wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Yeah. Wade is right. Have done this way. backuped the wsuscontent folder.
> reinstall WSUS and then move the backuped wsuscontent folder to the current
> wsuscontent folder. After synhcronizing, old updates didn' get downloaded.
> Never tried for the approval though.
>
> Wade, have you experience what to do if your drive where wsus content sits
> runs out of space? Many thanks.
>
> "Wade Godfrey" wrote:
>
>> Are you wanting to just move the WSUS content (downloaded files) or also
>> move the approvals?
>>
>> To reuse the content, just copy contents of the WSUS\WSUSContent from
>> your old 2.0 server to the new 3.0 server after the install. The content
>> remains the same for either version. When your new 3.0 server does a
>> synchronization, it will find the content already downloaded and will
>> not try and download again from MS.
>>
>> If you want to move the approvals, it's a little trickier. From previous
>> postings I've seen on doing that, it would seem easiest to do an
>> in-place upgrade on the 2.0 server and then move that installation to
>> the new server. I can't give you the exact steps on accomplishing that,
>> but I know it's been posted a few times in the forum already.
>>
>> Eric Sauve wrote:
>>> This has probably been asked "ad nauseam" but I can't seem to find a simple
>>> answer to this question. I intend to install WSUS 3.0 on a new server and
>>> would much prefer to use the updates located on my exsisting WSUS 2.0
>>> installation. Once the updates will be migrated to WSUS 3.0, I will
>>> decommision the old WSUS 2.0 server. TIA
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