Profile Manager/Contacts/Mountain Lion Server 10.8

Hello All,
I am running a small network with a combination of laptops, desktops, iPads, iPhones etc.  I finally upgraded to 10.8 Server and am running into a few problems.  I installed, added a trusted SSL cert, and started services without a problem.  I propogated a profile consisting of mail, contacts, calendar, and chat to an iPad without a problem.  All worked as expected.  I then tried to propogate to a new MacAir and received a failure notice indicating something along the lines that the installation failed due to an inability to autodiscover services.  Please forgive me as I wont be back to the server for a few hours and therefore cant put the exact verbiage in now.  Next, I tried to connect the laptop to the server through the very simple gui process.  Again, I recieve an error.  I have made sure that all relevant ports are open and that the contact server is running without errors.  I'm hoping someone might have experienced something similar.     

If you are running OS X 10.8.1 and want to upgrade to 10.8.2 this is normally done by selecting 'Software Update' from the Apple menu. This will then tell the Mac to get the update from the App store.
This updates the basic operating system of the Mac, the server software is now separate to the operating system. Again to upgrade the server software you select 'Software Update' and it will look in the App store for any available updates.

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