Windows Server 2012 Beta: How to configure WSUS Reporting

Installation of Windows Server 2012 Beta WSUS is a easy and straight forward task, which you can do via Server Manager or remotely by adding the required Role.

After I installed WSUS it worked immediately without any issues, but when I tried to open one of the computer reports I got following message.

So I thought no problem. I download report viewer from Microsoft website and I will install it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=577

But when I tried to install it told me I need .Net Framework 2.0 . But you can’t install .Net framework redistributable bits on Windows Server 2012 Beta , since .Net Framework 4 is already installed. And when you try to install the redistributable files Windows will tell you that you should add it via roles and features.   So what to do ?

Here is the solution. You will need the Windows 2012 Server Beta Installation sources. In my case in Drive D:

 

Starting  Command prompt as Administrator

 

Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /featurename:NetFx3ServerFeatures /Source:D:\sources\sxs
Note: D: is the drive letter of DVD drive on the computer, adjust it accordingly.

after running successful .Net Installation via DSIM you can run the installation of Report Viewer tools without a problem

Now Reports works fine !

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Thanks for this! I'm getting ready for rolling out a test lab with 2012 and this is on the list of things for testing!

• Anonymous
  December 13, 2012
  Great...Thanks for your experience, I'm have same problem with WSUS Win2012

• Anonymous
  April 23, 2013
  Great thanks for sharing this ...

• Anonymous
  April 23, 2013
  Thanks !

• Anonymous
  May 28, 2013
  Good///

• Anonymous
  June 26, 2013
  Can we use Report viewer 2012 instead?

• Anonymous
  July 22, 2013
  Thanks, this helps a Lot! Microsoft: it's been a whole year!  Get your act together!

• Anonymous
  July 24, 2013
  Many thanks, this saved me a lot of pain and frustration

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2013
  Thanks helped a lot.

• Anonymous
  September 05, 2013
  Great stuff, cheers!

• Anonymous
  September 16, 2013
  I mentioned that Report Viewer 2012 is not working. Thanks for the good advice man! This works great!

• Anonymous
  October 16, 2013
  Thanx for the walk through! Is this still valid for the "2012R2 Preview"? I keep getting "NetFX3ServerFeatures" unknown.

• Anonymous
  October 21, 2013
  Thanks so much for sharing this!! It was a great help!

• Anonymous
  November 14, 2013

1. Install Net.Framework 3.5 (already included  2.0 and 3.0) Add-WindowsFeature net-framework-features -IncludeAllSubFeature
2. install Report Viewer 2008 SP1 from www.microsoft.com/.../confirmation.aspx

• Anonymous
  January 22, 2014
  Just sums up what a load **** Microsoft are. Integration nah, let's keep peddling an incompatible report viewer in our 2012 R2 release of WSUS and leave our customers to just through hoops.
• Anonymous
  January 27, 2014
  TKS exactly what i needed
• Anonymous
  April 22, 2014
  Thank You!
• Anonymous
  May 12, 2014
  Extremely helpful. Not surprising Report Viewer 2012 would not work with WSUS.
• Anonymous
  May 15, 2014
  Thanks helped a lot.
• Anonymous
  May 15, 2014
  Thanks helped a lot.
• Anonymous
  May 19, 2014
  Thank you, sir. Worked perfectly.
• Anonymous
  May 26, 2014
  Thanks a lot, i spend approx 2 hours in this problem and short before a nervous breakdwon....
  It works fine
• Anonymous
  May 26, 2014
  Thanks a lot, i spend approx 2 hours in this problem and short before a nervous breakdwon....
  It works fine
• Anonymous
  June 11, 2014
  Thank you for this. Headache solved.
• Anonymous
  July 04, 2014
  installed report view 2012 on windows 2012 and guess what .. it don't work. Not happy at all. thanks ms
  
• Anonymous
  July 29, 2014
  Muito bom!! Parabéns!
• Anonymous
  August 15, 2014
  thanks for the solution. searched for this problem but did not find the answer to it is not yet gone to your site. it works!
• Anonymous
  November 10, 2014
  great thanks
• Anonymous
  November 13, 2014
  Excellent!!!!
• Anonymous
  December 02, 2014
  The comment has been removed
• Anonymous
  December 08, 2014
  a year later your comment helped me
• Anonymous
  January 12, 2015
  excellent that worked
  cheers
  
• Anonymous
  January 15, 2015
  this one worked
  
  --- Anton Vovchenko Anton Vovchenko
  14 Nov 2013 12:44 PM
  
  1) Install Net.Framework 3.5 (already included 2.0 and 3.0)
  
  Add-WindowsFeature net-framework-features -IncludeAllSubFeature -Source PathToInstallCD
  
  2) install Report Viewer 2008 SP1 from
  
  www.microsoft.com/.../confirmation.aspx
  ---
• Anonymous
  February 25, 2015
  Thanks this was very useful and ill documented elsewhere!
• Anonymous
  March 20, 2015
  This works on Win 2012 R2 wsus virtual server=)
• Anonymous
  April 14, 2015
  Thanks for sharing your knowledge
• Anonymous
  April 17, 2015
  Very helpful
• Anonymous
  May 21, 2015
  Thanks, worked like a charm
• Anonymous
  August 19, 2015
  THANKS...
• Anonymous
  September 03, 2015
  Windows Server 2012 R2 - WSUS - Report Feature
  - close WSUS Update Services console
  - mount iso/DVD of Windows Server 2012R2 into DVD-ROM drive (D:)
  - PS:> Install-WindowsFeature -name NET-Framework-Core -source D:sourcessxs
  - unmount DVD/iso
  - install Report Viewer 2008 SP1
• Anonymous
  October 12, 2015
  i found another solution :
  type this in powershell : Install-WindowsFeature -Name Net-Framework-Core
  
  then install the exe for the report viewer 2008.
  
  
• Anonymous
  November 10, 2015
  Thanks, it works for me.