Diagnosis:

You are receiving an error “Failed to publish package. Code: -2146233088 Publishing operation failed, too many locally published categories”

• Log csi_pluginlog.txt will contain below error:

[04/09 11:08:06.391] Publishing package
[04/09 11:08:06.745] Failed to create package: : -2147352567 , In 'Publisher.invoke'
Code: -2146233088
Publishing operation failed, too many locally published categories.
 --> Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.PackagePublisherTooManyCategoriesException: Publishing operation failed, too many locally published categories.
   at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.BaseApi.Publisher.VerifyPackageRulesAndState()
   at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.BaseApi.Publisher.PublishPackage(String sourcePath, String additionalSourcePath, String packageDirectoryName, Boolean dualSign, String httpTimeStamp)
   at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.BaseApi.Publisher.PublishPackage(String sourcePath, String packageDirectoryName)
   at plugin.DotNetWrapper<Microsoft::UpdateServices::Administration::IPublisher>.invoke(DotNetWrapper<Microsoft::UpdateServices::Administration::IPublisher>* , PluginBstr* name, Arguments* args, PluginMarshal* marshal) 

• You can run Powershell script to get current number of your products in the WSUS. Edit script as required.

$server = Get-WsusServer -name WSUS.company.local -portnumber 8531 -usessl #Edit as required

$prods = Get-WsusProduct -UpdateServer $server

$prods.Product | ?{$_.UpdateSource -eq "Other"} |ForEach-Object -Begin { $index = 0 } -Process {Add-Member -InputObject $_ -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Number -Value (
++$index) -PassThru} | Format-Table Number, type, title -Autosize
Write-host "You have"$index "products" -BackgroundColor Black -ForegroundColor Yellow