If you ever have the need to force/trigger a full sync of the WSUS Metadata in ConfigMgr, for example for troubleshooting, or simple demo purposes. This is how.
Forcing WSUS Metadata sync
PowerShell to the rescue 🙂 Simply run this command after importing the Configuration Manager PowerShell module:
Sync-CMSoftwareUpdate -FullSync $True
The above command really just creates an empty flag file inside the .\inboxes\wsyncmgr.box folder, located in the Configuration Manager installation folder. When setting the FullSync parameter to $True, the operation creates a flag file named FULL.SYN in the folder, and when FullSync is $False it creates a flag file named SELF.SYN.
You will see the result in the wsyncmgr.log.
