Office Communication Server - Stress you can handle!

I finally got Office Communications Server 2007 R2 up and running after fiddling around with it for 3 days! I am super excited- the public IM connectivity is functioning just as it was before the upgrade / domain move-

I really dig the new management abilities Microsoft built into OCS 2007 R2. You have an easier to use, more granular ability to control users and the behavior of the pool.. Please take note, however, you DO need to install the management tools on a domain computer in order to provision users. The management tools are a seperate install all together from the core / base roles of operation.

I would have completed this in a day if it was not for a tiny oversight I made on the core installation. MAKE SURE you add the local computer name to the Subject Alternate Name on the certificate for the Pool Cert. My Edge and Front End were not connecting until I regenerated the certificate with the computer name in the SAN.. If it was not for that, the 2 days off and on of troubleshooting would have been non-existent..