Troubleshooting a Monitoring Agent Service Failure when Starting
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will reach end of support on January 9, 2018. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.
Author: Mitch Duncan
Publication date: November 2009
Product version: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2
While installing Office Communications Server, you might encounter the error shown in Figure 1 when starting your Standard Edition Server or Enterprise pool front-end server.
Figure 1. Deployment log showing Starting Service failure to start
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This error occurs when running the Start Services Wizard, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Start Services Wizard
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If the log output from running the Start Services Wizard indicates that the Monitoring Agent Service failed to start, the problem is a missing feature that must be installed on the front-end server or Standard Edition Server. To resolve this error, install the Message Queuing feature on the front-end server or Standard Edition Server for which you are attempting to start the services.
Message Queuing can be installed from the Add Features Wizard in Server Manager, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. The Add Features Wizard
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After Message Queuing is installed, run the Start Services Wizard again and it should finish successfully. This will save you from potentially frustrating moments with the Start Services Wizard.
Office Communications Server Resources
Visit the Office Communications Server main page at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=132607.
View the complete Office Communications Server documentation library at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=132106.
Follow tweets from the Office Communications Server team at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167909.
Download all the Office Communications Server content as a Word document at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=133609.
Download all the Office Communications Server content as a compiled help file at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160355. (Make sure you scroll down to the Additional Information section to download OCSDocumentation.chm.)