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Copper Contributor

Mar 06, 2018

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Open Office 365 Group site in SharePoint Designer 2013

Hi, I am trying to open Office 365 Group site in SharePoint Designer 2013. But I getting error "403 FORBIDDEN403 FORBIDDEN403 FORBIDDEN403 FORBIDDEN403 FORBIDDEN". I already allow Allow users...

paulpascha
Mar 06, 2018

First of all, please make sure you are aware of the latest guidance in customizing and branding modern team sites. Custom Master Pages in modern Team Sites are not supported and you should consider alternative approaches. The latest guidance is described in the article below.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/modern-experience-customizations-customize-sites

Apart from this, maybe the information in below blog helps to get rid of the error:

http://sharepointdesigner2013-forbidden.blogspot.nl/

paulpascha

Bronze Contributor

Mar 06, 2018

First of all, please make sure you are aware of the latest guidance in customizing and branding modern team sites. Custom Master Pages in modern Team Sites are not supported and you should consider alternative approaches. The latest guidance is described in the article below.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/modern-experience-customizations-customize-sites

Apart from this, maybe the information in below blog helps to get rid of the error:

http://sharepointdesigner2013-forbidden.blogspot.nl/

akash anand
Copper Contributor
Mar 08, 2018
After the SharePoint designer service pack 1 installation I was able to connect SharePoint Designer 2013 to Office 365 Group site.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42009
- AGalushko
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 22, 2021
  akash anand Thank you Akash. You save a lot of my time 🙂 SP1 for SPD 2013 really resolves this issue
- Deleted
  Dec 13, 2018
  Is this working fine and can connect with Group sites and their workflows? I can open other sites which listed in Admin center but not able to get Group sites in SPD 2013.
  - Carl_Williams
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 28, 2021
    I cant open squat.
akash anand
Copper Contributor
Mar 06, 2018
Thanks Paul for sharing details information about modern Team Sites.

But still I am unable to open Office 365 group site in SharePoint Designer 2013.
If I opened other team site in same site collection then sites are opened properly in SharePoint Designer 2013.

I checked second link. But unable to resolved 403 FORBIDDEN error.I am global administrator of my SharePoint Online site.

Please share any Url or document related to 403 FORBIDDEN error.

Thanks,
Akash
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Mar 06, 2018
Paul is absolutely correct here...the way to customize SPO in general has to be done avoiding to customize master pages using Designer or any other tool