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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/

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