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    • johnpozJ Offline
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
      last edited by johnpoz

      For starters pfsense 2.3.5 has been EOL for quite some time.. Update to current if you want any sort of help.

      Oct 31 will be a YEAR since it was eol, and there was even a year before that warning that it was going to be no longer supported.. And your not even running the latest version of that p2? Why should anyone waste any time helping someone that can't even keep their firewall even somewhat current?

      Not meaning to rant at you specifically, but this is just nonsense to be running such an old version of your FIREWALL.. meant to protect your network, etc..

      Does MS support windows 98 still? ;)

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        shiv_znet
        last edited by

        Hello Everyone,

        Please suggest for the same and let us know why we are getting such types of issue.

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        • GertjanG Online
          Gertjan @shiv_znet
          last edited by Gertjan

          @shiv_znet said in Unable to on outlook after connecting Open VPN:

          to connect outlook

          @shiv_znet said in Unable to on outlook after connecting Open VPN:

          we are using office365 for mailing services.

          Sorry, I don't know all Microsoft mail services.
          So, please detail : are you using Office 365 Outlook, the fat mail client ? A web-mail service ?
          What URLs, ports, protocols ?

          @shiv_znet said in Unable to on outlook after connecting Open VPN:

          Error - We are unable to connect right now. Please check your network and try again later

          The error states, that you can't connect to ... where ever you want to connect to.
          Your are connected as a client to pfSense using the OpenVPN server, right ?
          What are the firewall rules on the OpenVPN interface tab ?

          Btw : your pfSense didn't change lately. I guess it didn't change for the last year or two. So, if there are issues, it must be the settings.
          So, tell us, what (did you) change ?

          No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
          Edit : and where are the logs ??

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          • DerelictD Offline
            Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
            last edited by

            Regarding the known issue of Microsoft Office products failing to work on Windows 10 with OpenVPN, the root cause appears to be that the Network Location Awareness (NLA) and Network Connection Status Indicator (NCSI) services will not function without a default gateway set for the OpenVPN interface.

            The workaround illustrated in this blog post appears to work as advertised.

            For additional support with this specific issue, please see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us.

            It is not possible to resolve the issue from the pfSense side and this is strictly a Microsoft issue. It will require Microsoft addressing the underlying behavior of their software before this workaround will no longer be needed.

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            • DerelictD Offline
              Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
              last edited by

              It is not pfSense or OpenVPN. It is Windows.

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              • GertjanG Online
                Gertjan
                last edited by

                Furthermore : the solution talks about a TAP OpenVPN solution.
                TAP : that's pretty like your asking for troubles.

                Anyway, I'm using Office 365 myself @ home.
                It happens rather often that I'm connected to work, using the OpenVPN client delivered by pfSense, connected to the OpenVPN server exposed by pfSense.
                Everything works well. Maybe I don't have any issues because : I'm using TUN and IPv6 over VPN ....

                No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                • DerelictD Offline
                  Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                  last edited by Derelict

                  Up to Microsoft to solve. There is nothing wrong with the OpenVPN /1 "default" route solution. In fact, it's pretty simple and elegant. As I understand it, Microsoft has hard-set something to do with the 0.0.0.0/0 route on the workstation which is just dumb. This is up to them to fix. That is where any torches and pitchforks should be taken.

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                    shiv_znet
                    last edited by

                    Hello Everyone,

                    Today we observed that when we are using updated version - 16.0.11328.20420 of Microsoft outlook then getting this error.

                    When we use the lower outlook version then all things are working.

                    Please suggest what can we do????

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                    • JKnottJ Offline
                      JKnott
                      last edited by

                      @shiv_znet said in Unable to on outlook after connecting Open VPN:

                      Please suggest what can we do????

                      Stop using Outlook! 😉

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                      • GertjanG Online
                        Gertjan
                        last edited by

                        ... or take the OpenVPN using the horrible TAP out of the equitation.

                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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