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Creating profile synchronization connections in Sharepoint 2010 fails with error

When creating profile synchronization connections in Sharepoint 2010, for example as a part of configuring the profile synchronization service (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx) you may receive one of the following errors:

Error
Unable to process Create message
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Correlation ID: {GUID}
Date and Time: {timestamp}

Error
Access to the requested resource(s) is denied
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Correlation ID: {GUID}
Date and Time: {timestamp}

Normally you’ll get the “Access to the requested resource(s) is denied” error when trying to create a connection but the profile synchronization user (this is the farm account user you used to start the User Profile Synchronization service) does not have administrative rights on the profile synchronization server (this is the server you selected for Profile Synchronization Instance when creating the User Profile Service application). You can simply solve this problem by adding the user to the local administrators group temporarily.

The “Unable to process Create message” error happens when you tried to create a synchronization connection earlier and trying to create a new one with the same name. This occurs, for example, when you retry the creation with the same name after the “Access to the requested resource(s) is denied” error appeared on the last try. Simply choose another name and confirm that the User Profile Synchronization service user has at least local administrator rights on the profile synchronization server.

2012
01/13
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Sharepoint Server
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Opening a site in SharePoint Designer 2010 fails with unspecified error

When opening a site in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 the following error occurs: “The server could not complete your request. For more specific information, click the Details button.” But when clicking the “Details” button, a window opens that does not specify anything. It says “Below is the message that the server returned. For more information, contact your Internet service provider or web server administrator.” But the message is empty. There are no details given on the error.

After closing both windows a message appears: “An error occurred while trying to fetch data from your SharePoint site. Unexpected response from the server. The content type of the response is “”. The status code is “OK”. All that you can do now is to hit OK. But the website will not be opened and nothing else will happen.

I don’t know why, but my first thought was about authentication. I checked it in the IIS Manager.

The authentication was set to “Windows Authentication”, its providers to “Negotiate:Kerberos” and “Negotiate”.

After adding NTLM to the list of providers I tried to open the website again in SharePoint Designer and it worked!

So if you change any authentication settings of your SharePoint sites always add NTLM as a fallback for the Designer. Otherwise it will not open websites authenticated by Windows Authentication.

2011
09/26
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