Best Practice for Expired updates cleanup in SCCM 2012 SP1 R2

Hello,
I am looking for assistance in finding a best practice method for dealing with expired updates in SCCM SP1 R2. I have read a blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2012/04/12/software-update-content-cleanup-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx
I have been led to believe there may be a better method, or a more up to date best practice process in dealing with expired updates.
On one side I was hoping to keep a software update group intact, to have a history of what was deployed, but also wanting to keep things clean and avoid issues down the road as i used to in 2007 with expired updates.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Sean

The best idea is still to remove expired updates from software update groups. The process describes in that post is still how it works. That also means that if you don't remove the expired updates from your software update groups the expired updates will
still show...
To automatically remove the expired updates from a software update group, have a look at this script:
http://www.scconfigmgr.com/2014/11/18/remove-expired-and-superseded-updates-from-a-software-update-group-with-powershell/
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