Monday, February 3, 2014

SharePoint 2013: "Sorry, we're having trouble reaching the server"

Trying to add users to SharePoint groups.

When I type in a name I get the following message: "Sorry, we're having trouble reaching the server"

I had been tinkering with the web app directly in IIS (don't try this at home) and I disabled "Anonymous access". 

Apparently this is necessary for SharePoint to function. So don't mess with it.

2 comments:

  1. Thank you sooo much!! I had a tech request this change to be made a few days ago.... I Had been tearing my hair out trying to figure out why I could no longer add users. I reverted back, IISRESET and BOOM! Back to normal!
    Thanks again!

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    1. Yeah it took me a while to figure out too. Glad it helped you out.

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