How do I remove updates from the "all updates" list?

Question

Hello, say I have been getting updates for Windows 7, and I fully migrated to Windows 8, how do I get to remove the updates for Windows 7 from the "All Updates" list within WSUS? I have tried de-selecting the Windows 7 product from the p roducts
and classification option, and I have tried runing the clean-up wizard, but they are not getting removed. Deleting the database and reinstalling WSUS can't be the only option....

Answer 1

Uh... no... they weren't. No such concept exists. However, if you have an Automatic Approval rule configured on your WSUS server, that could account for such an action.
And all of that is aside from why these updates were imported from the Online Catalog in the first place, and not just synchronized normally like other updates.
What do you mean no such concept exist? They were approved by an admin, no one said anything about getting them imported, you are assuming these things, and normal sync was conducted.
Okay, let's clear up some logical impossibilities here. If the Server Cleanup Wizard deleted files, then the updates were DECLINED. Then the downstream servers WILL synchronize those declines, and the updates will be DECLINED
on the downstream servers.
Yes, that is theoretically how it’s supposed to work, but it does not, for example, my upstream server is showing 223 updates for FEP 2010, but my downstream server is showing 239 updates out of which 21 are invalid software updates.
This statement is logically inconsistent on a number of levels:
First, as noted, if the files were deleted, then the updates were declined on the upstream server, so they should now be declined on the downstream server.
Second, I have no idea what you mean by "red X representing an invalid software update". I'm not familiar with any such icon. Can you provide a screenshot?
Third, the servers are not "still getting the metadata". They get it ONCE. The day it arrives in the environment. After that, it's there FOREVER... unless deleted by the Server Cleanup Wizard.
As I already explained, theoretically the files should be synced up, but they don't and when I say that they are represented by a red X I am referring to the Microsoft's Technical Reference for the Icons Used for Software Updates which you can find here
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848254.aspx
So here is the thing, you are saying that the metadata is there forever, but is it? I mean if the server cleanup gets rid of it that means it’s not there forever, right? Maybe I am missing something? As a side note, I did run the server cleanup wizard, and
it did not remove it since the icons with the red X's are still there...
So first question: Have you used the Server Cleanup Wizard on the downstream servers?
Yes, and it did not help. I am still seeing bad updates, as these ones for example –
Not possible, except by declining the update on the upstream server. Which should have already replicated.
Declining updates does not help me in this scenario for postdated KB's, only for the ones going forward.
I'll still need to figure out what you're talking about here, as I have absolutely no idea about these indicators.
Please refer to Microsoft's reference -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848254.aspx
No, actually. :-//
Does it now? :P