wroot,
Thanks for the response. My windows server (2012 R2) has it's firewall off for the time being while I'm troubleshooting. I can use telnet to verify that both 5222 and 5223 are listening. FYI, under Server > Server Settings > Client Connections > Client Ports: Client port is set to 5222, and Client SSL port is set to 5223. Perhaps there is some setting in openfire that is prohibiting SSL on 5222 which is the "new method"? Spark hangs for about 30 seconds at Authenticating, then says invalid username or password. Where do I go from here? Thanks again.