Visual Studio Community 2015 Services not available

Question

The problem is that I can't sign in to my visual studio, so can't use it.

My 30 day license expired and that means that I have to sign in in order to use it. So I hit Sign in button. A white window saying "We're getting things ready" shows up and after a while labled: "Sorry, we ran into a problem", saying "The online service is not available. Please try again later.".

When I checked the service status, it said it is online.

EDIT: {

I just used Fiddler to debug the network connection.. and I found out that the program or even the system just can't establish the connection to this server: http://go.microsoft.com:443

}

Any ideas how to fix it and sign in?

Answer 1

Change the Visual Studio proxy settings in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe.config

to

<system.net>
    <defaultProxy useDefaultCredentials="true" enabled="true">
        <proxy usesystemdefault="True" />
    </defaultProxy>
    <settings>
        <ipv6 enabled="true"/>
    </settings>
</system.net>

Answer 2

I suppose this is a bit of a necro, but I fixed the above problem with a simple ipconfig /release, /renew, /flushdns in the command prompt. Works just fine now.