Lync Management Shell Error "Automatic Collection of Configuration data failed"

I recently ran into an error when building another pool in an environment. This was nothing new, we have built 4 other pools with no issues. This pool was to be placed in the APJ region for the company. From an OS perspective nothing was different, all the same pre-requisites installed, same VM configuration and same networking gear.

When installing Lync I came across the following error below:

My first thought was latency, this was a site that had higher latency than any other side in our environment. For example we were running about 280ms of round trip latency. Not that this is a ton of latency for tradition SIP traffic (too high for AV) so I did the clever trick of exporting and importing the Configuration. As expected this went right in and completed on all four FE's in this region no problem.

After the install I did some checking and all CMS replication looked to be good so I proceeded on ward with the install. Next, I had my four FE's installed and ready to update. When trying to run the Database update I continually came across the following error:

Not 100% sure what caused this error I turned to the internet, not finding much on the interweb we talked to a friend at MSFT and he found a case from a while ago that referenced updating .NET. We were running Windows 2012 NON R2 and had .NET 4.5 installed and we decided to run a trial on the update of .NET:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42643

To our dismay, we were now able to execute our PowerShell commands successfully and update the databases.

NOTE - After digging around I found this blog with the same situation and I figured I would pass some credit his way:

http://todayitnotes.blogspot.com/2014/05/automatic-collection-of-configuration.html

YMMV