Can't connect Windows 8.1 Enperprise to Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Get a Digest Login page and then a Blank with HTTP 404 Error page. Need help!

Hi,
I have make a new and clean install of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials on my office network server and then i made a new and clean install of Windows 8.1 Enterprise version on one of my office desktops.
After all VPN and Anywhere Access where setup on the server i when to a PC that is inside my office network and browse on Internet Explorer to the URL to connect this PC to the server and make it part of the domain.
But when i browse to the http://MYSERVERNAME/connect im not getting the Windows Server page with the option to download the windows connector. Instead i get a login pop-up saying "iexplore" and "digest". I try to create a user on the server
and use that user login details on this login box, but even then, the only thing i get is a blank page saying a HTTP Error 404.
So can someone please help me on this? Any advice on how to solve this problem in order to show the normal Windows Server connect page? 
Thanks

Hi,
Based on your description, please refer to following operations and troubleshoot this issue. Then check if
can help us to narrow down the cause of this issue.
Please type
http://server-IP-address/connect in IE. Then check if encounter the same issue.
On the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, please open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. Navigate to Sites, then right click Default Web Site and select
Edit Bindings… In Site Bindings, select Port 80 and click “Edit…” button. Would you please provide a screenshot of the Edit Site Binding (Port 80) that you can see?
Then please click
Connect which in the list of Default Web Site. In the mid panel, select
.NET Authorization Rules and double click it. Then please check if all users were allowed.
By the way, would you please provide a screenshot of the login page when you browser
http://servername/connect? It may help me to understand this issue clearly.
Meanwhile, please logon a problematic client computer and navigate to the path: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows
Server\Logs folder. Then check if there is Computerconnector log file. If there is, please check it if can find some clues. (Please note: the log file is a hidden file. Please open Control Panel, select Folder Options, select View tab and check Show hidden
files, folders and drives. Then you will be able to find the log file.)
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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    Server cannot set content type after HTTP headers have been sent. at System.Web.HttpResponse.set_ContentType(String value) at System.Web.UI.Page.SetIntrinsics(HttpContext context, Boolean allowAsync) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestWithNoAssert(HttpContext context) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) at Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Web.RemoteAccessSite.RealPageHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)
    https://remote.MYDOMAIN.com:443/Remote/fs/MobileDownload.aspx?path=\\MYSERVER\PICTURES\2013603.jpg
    /Remote/fs/MobileDownload.aspx
    MY.IP.ADDRESS.141
    MYDOMAIN\user
    True
    Forms
    NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
    31
    NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
    False
    at System.Web.HttpResponse.set_ContentType(String value) at System.Web.UI.Page.SetIntrinsics(HttpContext context, Boolean allowAsync) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestWithNoAssert(HttpContext context) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) at Microsoft.WindowsServerSolutions.Web.RemoteAccessSite.RealPageHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

    Hi,
    Before going further, would you please let me confirm something firstly?
    Would you please let me know if all Android devices
    encounter this same issue? If you download different type files, will still this issue persists? You can upload a small file (such as a text file) to the share folder, then check if Android device can’t download it.
    Based on your description, when logon a desktop computer, you will download files via RWA successfully. Please use the user account which logon computer to logon
    the Android device, will still fail to download?
    Please check if there has enough free space in Android devices that be used to save download.
    When this issue occurred, please check the state of Android device in Dashboard. Besides, I suggest you should run the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) and fix all
    it can find. Then monitor the result.
    Run the Windows Server 2012 Essentials Best Practices Analyzer
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200181.aspx
    In addition, regarding to the Event ID 1309, please refer to the following articles.
    Event ID: 1309 Source: ASP.NET 4.0.30319.0
    http://www.eventid.net/display-eventid-1309-source-ASP.NET%204.0.30319.0-eventno-11022-phase-1.htm
    Hope this helps.
    Best regards,
    Justin Gu

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