I was seeing an issue where the vSphere console windows not loading after upgrading to IE 11. The progress wheel would continuously spin cut the VM desktop would never appear.
After adding the vSphere site address to the compatibility view settings list in IE 11 the console view worked with no further issues but I then had an issue that I was no longer able to access other sites on the same domain (Citrix director 7.6 site) that would not run under compatibility mode. (the option in IE will only add the primary domain address)
So I used gpedit to add the subdomain site address for vsphere to the compatibility list.
If you try to add “vsphere.domain.com” to the Compatibility List using IE’s Internet Options you can only add the full domain, “domain.com” to the list.
To work around this I was able to add the individual subdomain page address to the compatability list using gpedit.msc
Add the subdomain (vsphere.domain.com) to your Compatibility List, make the following change by running gpedit.msc using an account with admin rights.
After saving the change log off of the machine and log back in to apply the change.
Thanks,
Matt