Home sharing broken with 12.0.1.26 update

Today I updated both my computers to the latest version of iTunes, 12.0.1.26. Previously, Home Sharing was working properly, but with this update they are unable to connect to each other
With iTunes open on both computers, I can see the remote computer name within iTunes, but when I try to open it I get the message "Loading <computer>" and then nothing happens. The loading just keeps going and it never actually connects to the remote computer.
Both computers are signed in to the same Apple ID and have Home Sharing enabled, and as I said everything worked perfectly before this update. I ran the diagnostics on both computers and everything is good there. Here's the output from the diagnostic tests in case it comes in handy
Desktop Computer Diagnostic (Server)
Laptop Computer Diagnostic (Client)
The only thing I could think of would be if the update changed the ports that home sharing uses, but I have no idea for sure. Has anyone else experienced this issue and/or have a solution for it?

Hi Sterling, thank you for your reply
I've went ahead and have gone through those troubleshooting steps, however the problem still persists.
I thought the firewall would most likely be the problem, so I opened the incoming ports on both computers, however that didn't change anything.
Next thing I tried was configuring Connection Security Rules on both computers, allowing my entire LAN (192.168.1.0/24) as accepted endpoints, this also failed.
Finally I tried disabling the whole firewall temporarily on both computers, and when this didn't fix the issue I ruled out the possibility of it being a firewall issue
However, I have noticed that creating a Home Sharing connection from my desktop (server) to my laptop (client) actually does work, and I can see a playlist I created. So that's some progress. However, connecting from the laptop to the desktop (which has all my music) still doesn't work.
After this I went ahead and decided to use Wireshark to capture the packet stream of both the successful and failed connections. What I've noticed is that iTunes home sharing uses a series of HTTP GET requests to establish the connection to the remote computer. Connecting from my desktop to my laptop I see that 23 total GET requests are sent and are all ACK'd. However, connecting from my laptop to my desktop, only one GET request is sent, and it is also ACK'd. Here are two screenshots of the TCP streams. The first is the successful connection and the second is the failed. You can see in the first screenshot's HTTP header, I've highlighted that 23 requests are being sent. In the second screenshots HTTP header, only 1 request is being sent.
With this is mind, I believe I can rule out any network issues on my end, since iTunes is actually only sending one GET request from my laptop and it is successfully delivered, however it hangs there and doesn't continue. I believe this to be an issue with the iTunes software and I hope the iTunes development team can look into it. I think my next step will be to re-install iTunes to see if that resolves it.

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