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OCS Front End Service will not start after install.

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Have have installed OCS standard and the OCS front-end service will not start.
Event viewer error id (7024)
The Office Communications server front-end service terminated with service-specific error 3287447135 (0x3f2765f)
Here is the service popup error:
Windows could not start the office communications server front-end on local computer,for more information review the system event log. If this is a non-microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to server-specific error code -1007520161
Front-end Vaildate log error.
Failure [0xc3ec78f4] One or more argument specified for the tast is invalid.
The RTCservice service account is part of the Domain Admins, RTCComponentUniversalServices, RTCHSUniversalServices and RTCUniversalServerAdmins
The RTCService starts up the IM and Telephony services with the same password that is used for the Front-end ( hence not a password issue)
All other services are starting (Audio/video,IM, Telephony Conf and Web conferencing)
Any ideas...
Jim
Friday, November 14, 2008 8:20 PM
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jvanduse wrote: It's a Enterprise CA
Under 'Trusted Root certication Authorities" I see two identical certs from the CA
neither of them have the 'friendly' name that I gave them..I removed one cert.
Under "Intermediate cert Auth" I see two different certs. I also removed the oldest..
Still can't start front-end..
Jim
I installed OCS into the Home domain over the weekend the same way I did it at work and the service started..
I then noticed that two fo the 'installed components' were not listed on the validation.. I will format the server again at work and install OCS again..
Thanks for the emails support....
JimSunday, November 16, 2008 3:25 AM
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You should find more detailed information in the Application Log
Are you sure that you configured the certificate correctly?
Must be the FQDN name of your server in the Domain
Friday, November 14, 2008 9:20 PM -
I was looking through the appliction log and it is all 'blue'. (clean)
No red alerts or yellow informantional objects.. Lots of blue..
I went through the install log and it said that it had completed successfully.
I created a CA internally and setup the cert with the following information
Informational:
OCS server=xts4700102.uclab.com
sip domain=uclab.com
domain=uclab.com
Automatic Logon domain = uclab.com
No external access
CERT Info
Friendly name=Internal OCS
Subject name=xts4700102.uclab.com
Subject alternate name=xts4700102.uclab.com
The Country/Region, State/province on the cert are not correct but I don't think that it would make a difference with an internal CA.. ??
Jim
Friday, November 14, 2008 9:55 PM -
No Country and other stuff is not so important for Cert
Name looks alright, SAN not required but should not harm your installation
Do you have an Enterprise CA?
Does your server trust the CA?
You should open the cert via certificates (local computer) and verify that it is valid for the server
Friday, November 14, 2008 10:05 PM -
It's a Enterprise CA
Under 'Trusted Root certication Authorities" I see two identical certs from the CA
neither of them have the 'friendly' name that I gave them..I removed one cert.
Under "Intermediate cert Auth" I see two different certs. I also removed the oldest..
Still can't start front-end..
Jim
Friday, November 14, 2008 10:17 PM -
jvanduse wrote: It's a Enterprise CA
Under 'Trusted Root certication Authorities" I see two identical certs from the CA
neither of them have the 'friendly' name that I gave them..I removed one cert.
Under "Intermediate cert Auth" I see two different certs. I also removed the oldest..
Still can't start front-end..
Jim
I installed OCS into the Home domain over the weekend the same way I did it at work and the service started..
I then noticed that two fo the 'installed components' were not listed on the validation.. I will format the server again at work and install OCS again..
Thanks for the emails support....
JimSunday, November 16, 2008 3:25 AM