Lync Server 2010 Control Panel - "navigation to the webpage was canceled"

Hi All,

I just installed Lync Server 2010. The SQL 2008 is installed on a separate box and both servers are on Windows 2008 R2.

However, when I try to start the "Lync Server 2010 Control Panel"  i get a blank page with the following message "Navigation to the webpage was canceled"

The Installation had no errors and went well. But I did have one problem in the Topology Builder where is asked to create a File Share and asked for FQDN and File Share. I entered "Server1.domain.com" and File Share "Poolshare" but it did not like it and error with a red cross saying.. 

"FQDN Server1.domain.com is already used in this topology"

So in the end I just change it to "Server1" then published and ran the installation sucessfully and all services are started OK

Any idea? could it be that the file share is not using FQDN?

Thanks

ECL