“Sorry, we're having trouble reaching the server” and “The server was unable to save the form at this time. Please try again”.

ISSUE 1

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Receiving following error message Sharepoint 2013  PeoplePicker 

  “Sorry, we're having trouble reaching the server”

If you already tried restarting IIS  and tried enabling HTTP Activation  fearture for .net 3.5 and WCF.

If you still received same error, Try enabling Anonymous Access 

RESOLUTION 

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1. Go to IIS  and Select the site where you are receiving the error 

2. Click on Authentication -->Enable Anonymous Authentication 

3. Restart the IIS

Hope this helps you ! Please let me know if you still receive the same error message.

ISSUE 2

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Getting following error message while saving list in SharePoint 2013,

“The server was unable to save the form at this time.  Please try again”. 

RESOLUTION 

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1. Go to IIS  and Select the site where you are receiving the error 

2. Click on Authentication -->Enable Anonymous Authentication 

3. Restart the IIS

Hope this helps you ! Please let me know if you still receive the same error message.

I recently experience both this issue in my SharePoint 2013 environment, tried all troubleshooting steps finally enabling Anonymous Authentication  fixed my issue.

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This operation can be performed only on a computer that is joined to a server farm by users who have permissions in SQL Server to read from the configuration database. To connect this server to the server farm, use the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, located on the Start menu in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products

SHAREPOINT ISSUE :


Server Error in '/' Application.

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This operation can be performed only on a computer that is joined to a server farm by users who have permissions in SQL Server to read from the configuration database. To connect this server to the server farm, use the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, located on the Start menu in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products.

CAUSE

This issue would occur if the user account  “UserAccountName” or “Administrator” doesn’t have enough permission in the SQL server contents databases of SharePoint site collections .

SOLUTION  1

1. Go to SQL Server Management Studio Server
2. Expand the Security option -- Expand the logins -- Right click on the admin  account --
    Go to properties
3. Click on Server Roles--Enable the Sysadmin permission.
4. Do a IISRESET in Sharepoint server

SOLUTION 2

1. Go to SQL Server Management Server
2. Expand the Security option -- Expand the logins -- Right click on the admin account --
Go to properties
3. Click on User mappings-- Select Contenet database of the site collection --Provide DBreader permission
4. Do a IISRESET in Sharepoint server

SOLUTION 3

 If this issue happens after changing the farm admin password, Please update the passwrod in the Sharepoint

SOLUTION 4

Try running the Sharepoint configuration withouyt disconnecting the farm and make sure wizard completes successfully. If Wizard fails , Check the Log and let me know

Hope this helps you !