PowerShell: How to clean up the WinSxS folder in Windows Server 2012 R2

In this post we’ll look at how to use PowerShell to reduce the size of the WinSxS folder in Windows Server 2012 R2.

A customer has a very quick SSD based server at a cloud provider, but although it is SSD based it only has a tiny 40GB C:\, which is a very small footprint for the OS, a couple of apps and logs files. So i was asked to take a look and see what i could do to make a bit of room.

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