Service 'MSExchangeMailboxAssistants' not starting during exchange 2013 Install

I am installing the first exchange 2013 MBX server in an existing 2007 org, and during the services start up portion of setup I am getting the error :Service 'MSExchangeMailboxAssistants' failed to reach status 'Running' on this server. 

I've attempted to manually start the service, but it just stops immediately.  Here is a snippet from the install log:

Service Control Manager reports no process ID for service MSExchangeMailboxAssistants.
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0448] [2] Unable to get the process ID for service MSExchangeMailboxAssistants because another similar process 0 was found
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0448] [2] [ERROR] Service 'MSExchangeMailboxAssistants' failed to reach status 'Running' on this server.
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0542] [2] [ERROR] Service 'MSExchangeMailboxAssistants' failed to reach status 'Running' on this server.
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0620] [2] Ending processing start-SetupService
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0667] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution:
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0792] [1] 0.  ErrorRecord: Service 'MSExchangeMailboxAssistants' failed to reach status 'Running' on this server.
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0792] [1] 0.  ErrorRecord: Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.ServiceDidNotReachStatusException: Service 'MSExchangeMailboxAssistants' failed to reach status 'Running' on this server.
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target, Boolean reThrow, String helpUrl)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.ManageSetupService.WaitForServiceStatus(ServiceController serviceController, ServiceControllerStatus status, Unlimited`1 maximumWaitTime, Boolean ignoreFailures, Boolean sendWatsonReportForHungService)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.ManageSetupService.StartService(ServiceController serviceController, Boolean ignoreServiceStartTimeout, Boolean failIfServiceNotInstalled, Unlimited`1 maximumWaitTime, String[] serviceParameters)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.ManageSetupService.StartService(String serviceName, Boolean ignoreServiceStartTimeout, Boolean failIfServiceNotInstalled, Unlimited`1 maximumWaitTime, String[] serviceParameters)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.StartSetupService.InternalProcessRecord()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ProcessRecord()
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0855] [1] [ERROR] The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); 
	start-SetupService -ServiceName MSExchangeMailboxAssistants" was run: "Service 'MSExchangeMailboxAssistants' failed to reach status 'Running' on this server.".
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0855] [1] [ERROR] Service 'MSExchangeMailboxAssistants' failed to reach status 'Running' on this server.
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0855] [1] [ERROR-REFERENCE] Id=MailboxServiceControlLast___6dafc355332b4424880090d93b6a67df Component=EXCHANGE14:\Current\Release\Shared\Datacenter\Setup
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0933] [1] Setup is stopping now because of one or more critical errors.
[11/25/2013 23:13:32.0933] [1] Finished executing component tasks.
[11/25/2013 23:13:33.0261] [1] Ending processing Install-MailboxRole
[11/25/2013 23:18:04.0888] [0] End of Setup

Google is yielding no results, they all point to the transport service, which is running on my VM.