Greetings Tom,

If key ports is blocked then Messenger can't make an outgoing connection to port 1863 or 80
and 443 (all TCP). As such, it sounds like your firewall is still blocking it.
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"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Running 7.5 IM. Get message 800072efd saying that perhaps my firewall is
> blocking the mesenger from connecting to my service. Turned off both
> firewalls and the problem persist. Clicked on Troubleshoot and the test
> results come back with one failure being KEY PORTS. How do I resolve this
> problem.
>
> Thanks to all in advance.
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