New-CrmOrganization The Deployment Service cannot process the request because one or more validation checks failed.

I’m playing around with scripting and implementing CRM 2011 into my provisioning and kept banging my head trying to figure out why the !”¤# I constantly would get

New-CrmOrganization : The Deployment Service cannot process the request because one or more validation checks failed.

I could create new Organization fine in the Deployment Manager MMC, so I smacked together a VB console app calling the deployment web service and got same result. No luck.

I gave up for a while and spend some time reading up and creating the environment for running ADFS 2.0 for Claims-based Authentication. ( I can recommend reading the MS guide and this YouTube video is a MUST! )

So after struggling abet with certificates a went back to the original problem. I must admit I have NO idea why, but after I managed to get ADFS working seemingly internally and externally, suddenly both PowerShell and calling the deployment web service directly worked again. So I guess the lesson learned is. Get that up and running BEFORE trying to script the rest