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# WSUS Maintenance

Scope: Easy2Patch 4.0

The WSUS Maintenance screen uses filters to find the update. The updates in this list are the updates sent with the Easy2Patch catalog and published over WSUS. In this list, no updates other than the ones Easy2Patch has distributed are seen.

ToDo:

With the **Delete** button, the selected updates are deleted from WSUS. With **Republish** button, selected updates are republished to the WSUS system. With this option, selected updates are deleted from the WSUS system, and then published again. With **Cleanup** button, the cleanup function is run on the WSUS and the Superseded updates in the database are Declined and the Declined updates are deleted.

Updates are selected through the WSUS console and confirmed with Approve for Install.

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When the approved update comes to the Windows Update screen of the client, the installation is performed and the software is updated.

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On the Easy2Patch server, updates are downloaded in the Download Path under Settings \ General Settings. A folder named Temporary is created in this path and each update is downloaded into the created folder with its own PackageID value.