selenium webdriver - Unable to create new remote session

Question

How to resolve this issue. Earlier my code was working, but IE settings were reseted by someone. Now I am getting this exception.

Started InternetExplorerDriver server (32-bit)
2.53.1.0
Listening on port 16183
Only local connections are allowed
Oct 21, 2016 10:14:12 AM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Attempting bi-dialect session, assuming Postel's Law holds true on the remote end
Oct 21, 2016 10:14:12 AM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Falling back to straight W3C remote end connection
Oct 21, 2016 10:14:12 AM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Falling back to original OSS JSON Wire Protocol.
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: Unable to create new remote session. desired capabilities = Capabilities [{ensureCleanSession=true, browserName=internet explorer, version=, platform=WINDOWS}], required capabilities = null
Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: '3169782', time: '2016-09-29 10:24:50 -0700'
System info: host: 'BWT12654001', ip: '10.52.132.157', os.name: 'Windows Server 2008 R2', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_101'
Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:80)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:141)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:602)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:242)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:228)
    at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:180)
    at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:172)
    at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.<init>(InternetExplorerDriver.java:144)
    at mypackage.TestIEBrowser.main(TestIEBrowser.java:33)

Answer 1

This can work out of the box without the desired capability settings. Go to internet options>>Security, click on:'Reset all zones to default level and after that, ensure that the 'Enable protected mode' checkbox is ticked for all the four zones.