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Update on Vista Localhost browsing issue - Resolved!

By Chris R. Chapman at February 23, 2008 05:41
Filed Under: IE7, Vista

My blogging has decreased dramatically - I know!  I've a lot to catch up on, but I thought this would be a good tidbit to share with respect to my earlier post about not being able to browse my local IIS on my Vista laptop.

Well, after much digging, I discovered that the issue is related to my IPSec policies - somewhere, there's a conflict in the rules that the corp net pushes down to my machine when I connect to the network.

I "fixed" my problem by stopping the IPSec service.  Horrors!  Yes, I know.  Violating a bazillion policies, but dammit!  I want control of my machine!  It even held me up from launching my Virtual Server console.

I began to believe it wasn't a firewall issues and more in the IPSec direction after reviewing a few articles online and discovering that I could not ping the loopback adapter (127.0.0.1), but could ping external sites.

Lesson learned - word to the wise.  Now, it's a whole other matter on how I'm going to get the IPSec policies rationalized...

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I am a Toronto-based software consultant specializing in SharePoint, .NET technologies and agile/iterative/lean software project management practices.

I am also a former Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) Consultant with experience providing enterprise customers with subject matter expertise for planning and deploying SharePoint as well as .NET application development best practices.  I am MCAD certified (2006) and earned my Professional Scrum Master I certification in late September 2010, having previously earned my Certified Scrum Master certification in 2006. (What's the difference?)