Forefront Threat Management Gateway won’t start

Working on a client’s OCS setup and got to the reverse proxy. Did my normal setup for the box and went about installing TMG 2010. Got to the end and it gave an error with the number -2147024891 and said to reboot the box. No matter how many times I rebooted, it didn’t matter, TMG services never started.

After many hours of trying everything I could think of, I tried the install with the machine as a stand-alone server and not a member of the domain. BAM! Everything went in smoothly. Evidently Microsoft wants you to use the TMG 2010 management tools to join the domain for some reason.

Hope this helps someone else.

OCS 2007 R2 Pre-Call Diagnostic won’t install

Got bit by the .NET 4 client again this week. Had a client ask me about installing the Pre-Call Diagnostic tool on a x64 platform as they couldn’t After trying to install on my box I kept getting an error about the UCMA Redistributal needing to be installed. I tried installing this manually and it would just bomb out.

Long story short, uninstalled and bam, the Pre-Call Diag tool installed just fine.