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December 05
SharePoint Designer - "The Server could not complete your request."

I was working on a site for a client today and needed to open up the default.aspx in SharePoint Designer.  I checked out the page and double clicked to open it and was present with the normal option, “Edit the Page Layout” or “Edit in Browser”.  I went ahead and clicked to edit the page layout and out of the blue was presented with the error “The Server could not complete your Request”.  I tried several different things, tried connect to another site, tried closing SharePoint design and re-opening it, I tried detaching the site from the page layout, no matter what I tried I continued to get the error.

Finally I gave up and went to Google.  In a discussing board I found people that were having the same problem and as equally puzzled about it.  Finally, on very helpful individual recommended recycling the application pool.  I figured it couldn’t hurt so I gave it a shot and tried to reconnect.  It worked!! So, if you are getting this same error, recycle your application pool for the site you are connecting to and try again.  It should work.

 

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    SharePoint Designer – "The Server could not complete your request."

    Log into your SharePoint web front end servers and open up IIS.  Expand the computer name and underneath it you'll see two "folders" - web sites and application pools.  Expand the application pools "folder" and a list of all the application pools for the various web sites running on the computer will be displayed.  Right click on the application pool that is being used for the particular web application/site you are trying to connect to.  One of the options you'll see in the drop down menu when you right click is "Recycle" (it should be 3rd from the top).  Click Recycle and your application pool will be recycled.
    Benjamin.SteginkNo presence information on 3/21/2011 12:55 PM

    SharePoint Designer – "The Server could not complete your request."

    How can I recycling the application pool
    Benjamin.SteginkNo presence information on 3/21/2011 12:55 PM

    SharePoint Designer – "The Server could not complete your request."

    You are the man!  All these other posts saying extend your web application to fix the issue, GARBAGE!  Just recycle and it starts working immediatly... Thanks!
    Benjamin.SteginkNo presence information on 3/21/2011 12:55 PM

    It worked by recycling the app

    Thanks for the idea.
     on 5/17/2011 1:31 PM