Fix-Login-VS-2013-2015.md

Fix login issue in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015

After start Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 may have login problems with the following error:

The Online service is not available. Please try again later

The reason is that web server go.microsoft.com now supports only TLS1.2 protocol.

Solution

Update connection settings for IE component so that it will use newer encryption.

Add to DWORD values to the Windows registry

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319]

"SystemDefaultTlsVersions"=dword:00000001
"SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001

Sources:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/72084149
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/network-programming/tls#configuring-security-via-the-windows-registry