Help required in setting up Employee Portal

Hi,

I am trying to setup Employee Portal with no success. I will explain the procedures below and home some masters can help me in configuring the EP. I have gone through various posts in this forum and tried whtever is mentioned there, but no luck.

First of all, I installed Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and installed / configured the following:

- IIS 6.0
- .Net Framework v1.1
- J# runtime
- MSMQ 3.0 with HTTP Support
- Configured HTTPS using a self signed certificate

Now I installed and configure Windows Sharepoint Services and configured the same, I am able to get my Team Site Home Page, which means Shapoint Service is installed properly

Now I got hold of this MBS Navision 4.0 SP1 CD and installed NAvision Client with Employee Portal Component.

Installed Navision Database Server, with proper licenses and pointed a database.

Tested the database server by providing the server details in the Navision client which opens the database without any problem. Till this point everything is fine

Then I installed Navision Application Server

After that Installed Employee Portal Front End

Two queues, nep_request_queu and nep_reply_queue, were created by the navision installer. Created two more private queues for key exchange handling, viz, nep_key_exchange_request and nep_key_exchange_reply. Assigned relevant security for both the queues.

Created back-end key pair using Navision --> employee portal --> Setup Card --> Security -> Create Back-end key pair

Configured Employee portal application setup card as follows:

Application Server Setup Card

General Tab
Code : NEP-1
Use Encryption : NO
Use Compression : NO

Front End Tab
Front End Processing : YES (ticked)
Request Queue : .\private$\nep_request_queue
Reply Queue : .\private$\nep_reply_queue

Key Exchange Tab
Handle Key Exchange : YES (ticked)
Key Exchange Reques : .\private$\nep_key_exchange_request
Key Exchange Reply Q : FormatName:DIRECT=HTTPS://nas/msmq/nep_key_exchange_reply

Started the Navision Appln Server with Startup parameter as "NEP-1" which is exactly asin the Application Server Setup Card.

Now I opened Navision Employee Portal Key Exchange Management Console and provided the following details:

Description : NEP
URL : [url=HTTP://nas]HTTP://nas[/url]
Path to Web.config : c:\inetpub\wwwroot
Reply Queue : .\private$\nep_key_exchange_reply
Request Queue : FormatName:DIRECT=HTTPS://nas/msmq/nep_key_exchange_request

Now I clicked on Action (menu) --> Update
then Action --> Start Service

The status became "Request for Public Back-end"

After few seconds when I clicked the "refresh" option from the Action menu, the status is not changing. The status is supposed to become "registration completed" and the sire address should come in "Trusted Sites card" in Navision Employee Portal module. This is not happening.

I have tried substitutint the FormatName:DIRECT=HTTPS://.... with ./private$/queuename whereever there is a mention about queues. But nothing happens.

I tried without "Handling Key Exchange" also by turning that option off in the Application Server setup card. But when I am configuring the web part in the portal page, Communication Error. BAck-end server didnt respond (time out) error occurs.

Please help me out.

Thanks in Advance

Najja