Hi, Yesterday we reinstalled our FIM virtual machines from scratch. One VM for AD; and another one for SQL, WSS and FIM. We followed the guidance from Technet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512685%28WS.10%29.aspx) and (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512686%28WS.10%29.aspx). We tried to open the FIM Portal, and once again got the 'Service not available' error message. We then enabled detailed stack tracing and the message now says the following: " Server Error in '/' Application The remote name could not be resolved: 'http' The unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request" there is a lot more in the stack error if required. please could someone shed some light on why a default installation of FIM fails like this? thank you