msmdpump to SSAS - windows

I have got msmdpump.dll set up on a windows 7 machine pointing to an SSAS instance on another server and every request I send is being logged in the event viewer with the following error.
Event ID:
10
Qualifiers:
16653
Message:
Message-handling subsystem: The message manager for the default locale cannot be found. The locale will be changed to US English
I have another msmdpump set up on that local machine as well which works perfectly but this is on windows 2003.
Full XML message
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MSOLAP ISAPI Extension: \\?\c:\inetpub\wwwroot\olap\msmdpump.dll" />
<EventID Qualifiers="16653">10</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>269</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-08-31T10:47:11.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>5174</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>test.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Message-handling subsystem: The message manager for the default locale cannot be found. The locale will be changed to US English.</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
EDIT:
Please note additionally that this call is through another data pump which can successfully connect to the SSAS instance.
EDIT2:
The error message looks to be coming from SSAS - so the request IS getting there. But it is failing on the user. Would I not appear coming through as the same user as the other data pump? Both data pumps are using Anonymous Authentication.
Actually any data on how the msmdpump.dll works would be great. All I've found is how to set it up not actually how it works.
Thanks in advance.

msmdpump translates a http request into a TCP/IP request to SSAS. I do not believe that trying to point one instance of msmdpump to another will work.

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I have asked this many times before, but thought would try to reword, as have never got any solutions.
The application ajax calls work fine on my home machine, or whats seems to be most other networks. When it works, I can see all the output in Wireshark
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If I run the app outside of the UWP container, ie I just run on the same machine, on the same network, but via the desktop browser (as you do for Cordova to debugging), it also works fine.
So it appears to be blocked before it even gets to the Network, as we see nothing in Wireshark at all, so this rules out host not reachable, CORS etc as it hasn't even been sent to the server.
I can run this in debug via Visual Studio, and I run the following test code...
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status is always 0.
How can I diagnose what is blocking this?? I have absolutely no idea. This is something low level, but how to see what? I have also looked through Windows Event logs, but can find nothing.
The Ajax call just returns 0 with a blank description. Our Network administrator just says there is something wrong with my app (I have tried multiple Cordova apps, including just basic test apps)
Thanks in advance for any help.
[EDIT1]
In response to the comment from #Xavier, all I have in my AppxManifest.xml (that I extracted from my built .appxupload file) is
<Capabilities>
<Capability Name="internetClient" />
</Capabilities>
There is some documentation on the capabilities here, where we have the following (right at the bottom of the page)..
The following capabilities are unavailable when deploying your Remote Mode application to the Windows Store:
Enterprise Authentication (enterpriseAuthentication)
Shared User Certificates (sharedUserCertificates)
Documents Library (documentsLibrary)
Music Library (musicLibrary)
Pictures Library (picturesLibrary)
Videos Library (videosLibrary)
Removable Storage (removableStorage)
Internet client/server (internetClientServer) - note that internetClient is still permitted
Private network client/server (privateNetworkClientServer)
I am not sure were we even set these in Visual Studio (config.xml), but also the above seems to be saying some of these can't be used?
Should the internetClient be enough (I only want to call out to a server as a client, not act as a server).
Also, this seems to be enough to work on most Networks except for my Work..
[EDIT2]
In response to the reply on the CSP...
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Surprisingly, I don't see this in my Ionic index.html, but perhaps this is because it is using the white list plugin?
My Ionic application has the following in the config.xml
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<allow-intent href="http://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="https://*/*" />
<allow-intent href="tel:*" />
<allow-intent href="sms:*" />
<allow-intent href="mailto:*" />
<allow-intent href="geo:*" />
<allow-navigation href="http://localhost:8080/*" />
....
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-whitelist" spec="^1.3.1" />
It would be great if the ajax even had some error saying it was something to do with CSP if that is what it is, but we just get nothing.
Once again, it is weird that the problem only occurs on my work network (either on cable or our WIFI). If I run the exact machine (e.g. a Surface tablet)over another connection (e.g. tether it to my phones cell), then all works as expected. So it must be some setting to do with the network (or firewall maybe), which also I find strange as surely I would at least then see something in Wireshark.
Would be great to be able to "debug into" the ajax call, and see where it is failing.
[EDIT 3]
After reading one of the comments, I used fiddler to see if I could see anything, which I do...
It even reports 200 (which is not correct), my request still fails.
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