SCCM 2006 | Clean up old Office updates and ContentLibraryCleanup.exe

Question

Hello
I have 2 questions that maybe related.

1 - In my console I can still see Office updates from 2017 - How can I remove these?

2 -Using ContentLibraryCleanup.exe won't work on my main site server which is also a DP(I think this is expected?) but is there a better way of doing a clean up?
My server is filling up with old updates as per pic:

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Hi @SenhorDolas ,

-> Kindly decline the Office updates in WSUS, and re-sync the software updates on the console of SCCM, then the Office updates will become an expired update with the icon of the black X, after a week, the update could be removed on the console.

-->If we would clean the content on the DP and site server, kindly delete the package on the console, the content on the DP and content library could be deleted naturally. Content clean up tool just removes content that's no longer associated with any package or application on a distribution point instead of removing content directly.

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Hi @SenhorDolas ,

According to the information offered, the update of Office 365 has not been replaced by any update, and the icon with the green arrow represents a normal software update.

The icon with the black X represents an expired software update. You can also identify expired software updates by viewing the Expired column for the software update when it displays in the Configuration Manager console. We could refer to this article for more information:
https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/sum/understand/software-updates-icons

-->So the update could not be removed unless it is expired or is superseded.

The tool only affects the content on the distribution point that you specify when you run the tool. The tool can't remove content from the content library on the site server. Use the content library cleanup command-line tool to remove content that's no longer associated with any package or application on a distribution point. So if we would clean the content on the DP, kindly delete the package on the console, the content on the DP and content liarbry could be deleted naturally.

Here is the article about content library cleanup command-line tool could be referred:
https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/plan-design/hierarchy/content-library-cleanup-tool#bkmk_params

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@Amandayou-MSFT
Thanks for your reply.

Office updates - I don't need those office updates as we are not using that version of channel - is there a way to remove the updates that we don't want?
Content clean up - how can I clean up the main site server since the tool won't work for main site just DP's?

Thanks, M

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