Disk Cleanup on Windows Storage Server

Hello,
we have NAS with preinstalled Windows Storage Server (Windows 2008). It was shipped with 40GB C: drive (and 2TB on rest of the capacity, RAID 5.
After some months the winsxs directory becomes huge (+16GB) and it literally depleted all empty space. We are running it on 100-300MB free space with no option what to remove.
The KB2852386 cannot be applied, because its for W2008 R2 OS. Any idea how to free up the space?
Thanks

Hi,
The only way to safely reduce the size of the WinSxS folder is to reduce the set of possible actions that the system can take – the easiest way to do that is to remove the packages that installed the components in the first place. This can be done by uninstalling
superseded versions of packages that are on your system.
So we can use the command “dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded” to cleanup previous versions of Windows Update files.
For more detailed information about WindSxS folder, please see:
What is the WINSXS directory in Windows 2008 and Windows Vista and why is it so large?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx
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