{"id":3472,"date":"2018-04-09T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2018-04-09T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T15:10:00","slug":"windows-server-2016-remove-wsus-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2018\/04\/windows-server-2016-remove-wsus-completely\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2016 | Remove WSUS (Completely)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to completely remove WSUS isn&#8217;t as straight forward as uninstalling the role.<br \/>\nThese steps are based on WSUS using the WID database (Not SQL)<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remove Windows Update Servers (WSUS) role &amp; Windows Internal Database (WID)<\/li>\n<li>Remove WSUS cache &amp; Update Services directories<\/li>\n<li>Remove WSUS website in IIS<\/li>\n<li>Reboot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PowerShell:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: powershell; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nUninstall-WindowsFeature -Name UpdateServices,Windows-Internal-Database\r\nRemove-Item \u2013path D:\\WSUS, C:\\Windows\\WID \u2013recurse\r\nRemove-Item \u2013path C:\\Users\\MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID\r\nRemove-Item \u2013path C:\\Scripts, C:\\Temp \u2013recurse\r\n\r\nRemove-Item \u2013path C:\\Program Files\\Update Services \u2013recurse \r\n\r\nRemove-WebSite -Name &quot;WSUS Administration&quot;\r\nRestart-Computer\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>References: ServerFault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to completely remove WSUS isn&#8217;t as straight forward as uninstalling the role. These steps are based on WSUS using the WID database (Not SQL) In Summary: Remove Windows Update Servers (WSUS) role &amp; Windows Internal Database (WID) Remove WSUS cache &amp; Update Services directories Remove WSUS website in IIS Reboot PowerShell: Uninstall-WindowsFeature -Name UpdateServices,Windows-Internal-Database [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powershell","category-windows-server-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-U0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}