MSN Messenger problem on Windows Server 2003

From: msnews.microsoft.com (andrewstory_at_fairisaac.com)
Date: 07/25/03 

Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:55:48 -0700

I have installed MSN Messenger 6.0 on Windows 2003, and unfortunately can't
sign in. When I attempt to, I get:

"We were unable to sign you into the .NET Messenger service, possibly
because of a problem with your Internet connection. Please try again later"

 I do have a valid .NET passport (and underlying hotmail.com account) as I
can sign in from Web pages requiring my passport on this same machine.

I am in a company LAN, so I thought proxy server but if I install the same
MSN Messenger 6.0 on some other Windows 2000 machine on the same LAN and use
the same .NET passport everything is fine.

I am assuming this is because of some obscure new security setting that
comes by default on this new OS. However I didn't see anything in the
Security Audit log that might explain it.

I looked around in the knowledge base, here and on the MSN site to no avail.
Can someone let me know what to try?

Thanks,

Andrew Story
andrewstory@fairisaac.com

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