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I have a client with an SBS 2011 server that hosts their email, company data, and hosts a few other business services. The system has plenty of RAM; however their issue is HDD access time. The wait time for file access is horrendous. I have found that the SQL DB for WSUS is almost constantly paging the HDD.

My initial thought is to just disable the WSUS and related services. I am not on-site at this facility.

What ramifications are likely to occur from just disabling WSUS? or is there another solution to solve WSUS constantly accessing the HDD?

Pratt Hinds
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  • Please check in which partition does the WSUS DB resides. Is it in the default C: or in any other partition? If it's in the default location, try migrating to say, D: and monitor the progress for some time. – Vicky Dec 29 '14 at 23:05
  • Currently only one partition on this system. – Pratt Hinds Dec 30 '14 at 15:30

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The main ramification is workstations not getting updated, assuming they're using WSUS.

Microsoft provides a WSUS reindexing script that might help if they're actually using WSUS for updates. I've found that that and running the cleanup wizard's tasks (not the wizard itself) helps a lot (I've scheduled Microsoft's script for that). Those may or may not provide enough of an improvement to keep it running.

Katherine Villyard
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