Xavier's dreams, thoughts, tech tips... » cannot connect http://www.xaviermorera.com Geekery, traveling, off roading and more in Costa Rica Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:03:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Unable to connect to SharePoint using SharePoint designer http://www.xaviermorera.com/2009/05/unable-to-connect-to-sharepoint-using-sharepoint-designer/ http://www.xaviermorera.com/2009/05/unable-to-connect-to-sharepoint-using-sharepoint-designer/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 19:46:53 +0000 Xavier http://www.xaviermorera.com/2009/05/unable-to-connect-to-sharepoint-using-sharepoint-designer/ If you can’t connect to your SharePoint server using SharePoint designer, one of the possibilities of what happened is that you have a remove tag added after after the add ScriptResource.axd. To solve try this:

- Use fiddler2 to determine issue. Download it from here www.fiddler2.com
- Check the error messages
- If you see access denied (http response code 401) to /_vti_bin/usergroup.asmx then it might be that you added AJAX support and the entries are in incorrect order in the web config

Description of the problem

<remove verb=”*” path=”*.asmx” /> is inserted automatically after <add verb=”GET,HEAD” path=”ScriptResource.axd” <add verb=”*” path=”*.asmx” validate=”false” type=”System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35″/>
This Means the .asmx pages do not work on the sharepoint server after adding the feature. This also prevents you edit the site using sharepoint designer because /_vti_bin/usergroup.asmx will give a 401 access denied error.

The issue is here:

<remove verb=”*” path=”*.asmx” />

Simply remove the tag and it will work

Check out the resolution here http://features.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=6623

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