Saturday, May 13, 2017

Move WSUS folders to another drive

Moving WSUS content folder to another drive

To move WSUS updates folder to another drive need to follow below steps:

1) Goto drive where need to copy wsus

2) Create folders  "wsus content" and "wsus logfiles" folders



3) Run cmd as Administrator













4) Type: pushd "C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools"
5) Type: wsusutil.exe.













6) Type: wsusutil. exe movecontent "x:\wsus content" "x:\wsus logfiles\logfilename"



7) All done. Wait until message will appear


PS: if Following error will appear:

Fatal Error: The WSUS synchronization service (WsusService) cannot be stopped.





Then Goto Services.msc and stop WsusService manually and give full access for "NT Authority\Network Service" account to root folder of the logfiles