New installation stuck at "Application Layer Started.................."

Hi there,

I have a new fully updated Windows Server 2012 R2 VM with SQL Server 2012 installed, though I have also tried using the POSTGRESQL, and when attempting to start the SDP server, the Java window constantly hangs at "Application Layer Started......", and just fills the bar with more dots, forever.

when launching with "run.bat" from the '\bin' directory I receive the following output:

"Inside Change JRE"
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JBoss Bootstrap Environment
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JBOSS_HOME: C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..
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JAVA: C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\jre\bin\java
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JAVA_OPTS: -Dserver.dir=C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\.. -Dprogram.name=ru
n.bat -Djboss.server.type=com.adventnet.j2ee.deployment.system.AdventNetServerIm
pl -Djboss.boot.library.list=log4j-boot.jar,jboss-common.jar,jboss-system.jar,Ad
ventNetDeploymentSystem.jar,commons-logging.jar -Dsdp.java.gc=false -Xms128m -Xm
x2512m -XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Ddb.home=C:\ManageEngine\ServiceD
esk\bin\\..\pgsql -Dorg.jboss.logging.Log4jService.catchSystemOut=false -Dorg.jb
oss.logging.Log4jService.catchSystemErr=false -Djava.util.logging.manager=com.ad
ventnet.logging.LogManager -Djava.util.logging.config.file="C:\ManageEngine\Serv
iceDesk\bin\\..\server\default\conf\logging.xml" -Djava.util.logging.config.clas
s=com.adventnet.logging.LoggingScanner -Dlog.dir="C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bi
n\\..\server\default" -Djava.library.path="C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\l
ib\native;C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\lib;C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bi
n\\..\bin" -DisSDP="true" -Dorg.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.ALLOW_BA
CKSLASH="true" -Dconnection.track="true" -Dtier-type=BE -Dtier-id=BE1 -Dfile.enc
oding=UTF-8 -Duser.language=en -Duser.region=US -Dstart.type=command
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CLASSPATH: C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\jre\lib\tools.jar;C:\ManageEngi
ne\ServiceDesk\bin\\run.jar;C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\lib\AdventNetLog
ging.jar;C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\lib\AdventNetNPrevalent.jar;C:\Mana
geEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\lib;C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\lib\AdventN
etUpdateManagerInstaller.jar;C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\server\default\
deploy\jbossweb-tomcat70.sar\commons-httpclient-3.0-rc1.jar;C:\ManageEngine\Serv
iceDesk\bin\\..\server\default\lib\commons-logging-1.0.2.jar;C:\ManageEngine\Ser
viceDesk\bin\\..\server\default\deploy\jbossweb-tomcat70.sar\commons-codec-1.3.j
ar;C:\ManageEngine\ServiceDesk\bin\\..\lib\startupclasses.jar;.;
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Server is starting. This may take a minute ...
This evaluation copy is valid for 27 days
Unclean shutdown of previous run.
ServerContainer                                   [CREATED]
SQLOne Search                                     [CREATED]
AdventNetCC                                       [CREATED]
AdventNetServiceDesk                              [CREATED]
ServerContainer                                   [STARTED]
SQLOne Search                                     [STARTED]
AdventNetCC                                       [STARTED]
AdventNetServiceDesk                              [STARTED]

Server Started.
Please connect your client at http://localhost:8080

Yet I am unable to connect to localhost:8080.

When I try, I just receive a 404 error, and I've tried clearing my browser cache, different browsers, and different ports. Still the same issue.

I've been racking my brain on this for ages, I've tried reinstalling SDP, using MSSQL, MYSQL and POSTGRESQL, each time I get the same result, I know that the VM has enough available resource, yet it refuses to work.

I appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks.