D’Oh!

On a hunch I checked my Firewall and saw it wasn’t allowing Ashmaisv.exe to access the internet. Once added everything worked fine. I presume that the update means it uses a different service to the old one for contacting the net.

I never thought to check before, as it had no problems connecting to get updates, but obviously it might help others to ensure that Ashmaisv has net access through firewalls. I’ve already made a seperate post about the fix that worked for me to make it easier to find (rather than buried here at the end of this thread).