XConnect on Windows 11: ERR_CONNECTION_RESET error when using HTTPS
Problem This week I moved my local development Sitecore 10 instance to a new laptop running Windows 11; all seemed well, except for XConnect, that mysteriously only worked without HTTPS. I would constantly get ERR_CONNECTION_RESET, with nothing being recorded in either XConnect, IIS or Events log: All the while the TLS Certificate was reported invalid. […]
CS0012: The type 'System.Object' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced.
I was setting up my Sitecore instance(s) on a new laptop, when this error reared its ugly head and kept me stuck for a good hour. Looking online there are many reasons why this showed up, but in my case, all I had to do was adding this line under configuration/system.web/compilation/assemblies: <add assembly="netstandard, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51"/> […]