leftydog1961

I can confirm that the removal of the Console immediately worked for me. No reboot needed. I just opened wds console and right clicked, all tasks, start and the the service is up and running. Installed the console on another machine temporarily. Not ideal since i like to admin on the Configmgr 2012R2 box in my test lab. Still haven't tested deployment of OS yet. In additon i would like to mention that I was never able to get WSUS working with my local SQL. Tried all sorts of permissions, added and removed WSUS, Sync kept failing, errors in wcm.log. Tried the wsus console config (even though your supposed to stop at product config). Nothing worked. I switched to WID and things are fine. Not pleased by all of these "gotcha's". Inadequate testing (yes, i know many people have unique setups) seems to be a defining quality of MS especially after several poor patch Tuesdays. My advice would be to stay at SP1 CU3 until the bugs are worked out.