How to change the location of WSUS updates

If you have ever made the mistake of putting WSUS on the system/OS drive, then you will need to think about moving it before you fill up the drive, and crash the server. Here is a short How to on what's involved.

1. Open a command prompt
   
2. Navigate to the directory that contains WSUSutil.exe
   
   
3. Type the following command: wsusutil.exe movecontent contentpath logfile [-skipcopy]

E.g. wsusutil.exe movecontent D:\WSUS1\ D:\WSUS-Move.log

Where D:\WSUS1 is the new path for local WSUS update storage, and D:\WSUS-Move.log is the path to the log file.

There is a great Technet page on managing WSUS from the command prompt. You can find it here!