If your WSUS server is underperforming or unresponsive, the issue often lies within the WSUS database. Over time, the database can become overloaded with unnecessary, outdated, or superseded updates. Without regular maintenance, this buildup can seriously affect performance, making even basic tasks frustratingly slow.
The Challenge of WSUS MaintenanceÂ
While Microsoft recommends performing maintenance every month, many administrators find it difficult to keep up. The process is time-consuming and complex, which means it often gets delayed until something breaks. This reactive approach can lead to extended downtime and wasted hours troubleshooting problems that could have been prevented.
The SolutionÂ
WAM offers a smarter solution. Designed to work quietly in the background, WAM automatically performs all the essential maintenance tasks that keep your WSUS database clean and efficient. It removes obsolete updates, declines unnecessary ones, compresses update revisions, and optimizes the entire database without any manual effort.
The results speak for themselves. First-time users are often surprised at how much space they recover, even if they believed they had been keeping up with maintenance using the built-in Server Cleanup Wizard. Many users have cleared out over 800 gigabytes of clutter, with our current record holding at more than 1,636 gigabytes. This kind of cleanup has an immediate and dramatic impact on performance, often making WSUS operations significantly faster and more reliable.
Beyond performance, one of WAM’s strongest advantages is its affordability. A single or upstream license starts at just 90 US dollars per year. For what it delivers in time savings and improved system performance, WAM is an incredibly cost-effective investment for IT teams of any size.
If you’re tired of dealing with a slow WSUS server and want a solution that just works, WAM is the tool you’ve been waiting for. Let it handle the maintenance so you can focus on what matters most; keeping your network secure and your systems running smoothly.
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At AJ Tek, our vision is to make IT simple and automated for other IT professionals. Our flagship product is WAM, WSUS Automated Maintenance. This system performs all of the tasks that a WSUS Administrator needs to do to maintain WSUS properly only leaving the approving of updates and reporting to the WSUS Administrator.
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