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Tim_Hatcher_145
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Feb 26, 2014

Windows 7, IE11, F5 Protected Workspace and Firepass not always working, Please help.

Hi all

 

I am an end user of the F5 firepass VPN solution to enable me to connect to my work PC via Remote Desktop using a Protected Workspace.

 

I have a question about Windows 7 and IE11, F5 Protected Workspace and Firepass.

 

I know that there are a number of articles written about this on the F5 site but none of them cover exactly my situation.

 

I have two machines one works just fine and the other does not and I can't work out the difference, so wondered if anyone else has solved this?

 

The first machine that works fires up the Protected Workspace correctly then spawns an IE session to run the firepass connection in and connects, happy days.

 

The Second machine that does not work fires up the Protected Workspace correctly but does not spawn an IE session to carry on. Also if I try and open an IE session in the Protected workspace it opens on the base machine outside of the Protected Workspace.

 

I have found a work-around using Firefox, but this involved ignoring error messages and reloading pages, so it is not very end user friendly. I would like all my machines to work like the one I have that works simply.

 

Thanks all

 

Tim