Wednesday, June 17, 2015

“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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