Windows Live Messenger Error 80048820 Revisited
It seems that the quest to get Windows Live Messenger to function properly at work has a new chapter. After fixing error 8100030F, his friend 80048820 showed up and got taken care of. But this is apparently a persistent foe, and yesterday decided to show his face again. Since the previous solution couldn’t be used again, I used the built-in troubleshoot option to try and figure out the problem:
So the problem is caused by some inability to connect because the program can’t use the required ports. Since I’m behind the company firewall, nothing could be done about that, so I had to do a few searches and a few minutes later, I did find a way to solve the problem. Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools –> Internet Options, choose the Connections tab, click the LAN settings button and tick the Automatically detect settings checkbox. That got it working again. Now let’s see for how long.
Looks common enough in a company network where you would have uPNP disabled + the MSN IM ports block. After a while it would just fetch the IE setting and attempt to connect over HTTP and HTTPS, like most IM nowadays. File transfers are going to be slower but atleast it gets you IM in a corporate network
Darragh
Thanks for the explanation, but I still don't know why was it working before and then stopped.