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SharePoint Mobile: Could'nt connect to the Service
- Hello Pete, I got to the bottom of the issue and I hope this would resolve the issue for you like it did for me. I found that if you go to the very top level of your SharePoint Site Collection, invite the user to that site and also the site you are connecting them to if its on a different site. Then they will be able to gain access to SharePoint mobile. We basically ignored the site at the top of the SharePoint collection and created additional sites without ever using the very top level site. I invited users to the top level and immediately they had access via SharePoint Mobile. Thank You, Brian
Hi Brian, did you ever get to the bottom of this problem? We are having much the same randomness, where some users are fine, and others aren't. Doesn't seem to be iOS/Android specific and we can't figure out any pattern.
- Hello Pete, I got to the bottom of the issue and I hope this would resolve the issue for you like it did for me. I found that if you go to the very top level of your SharePoint Site Collection, invite the user to that site and also the site you are connecting them to if its on a different site. Then they will be able to gain access to SharePoint mobile. We basically ignored the site at the top of the SharePoint collection and created additional sites without ever using the very top level site. I invited users to the top level and immediately they had access via SharePoint Mobile. Thank You, Brian
thank you so much... Brian Knutson...
- Thanks for the response Brian. We are using Office 365 Groups, so each site is already a site collection, and the user already has permission. This does seem to have improved recently however and we only now have a few issues mainly on the "People" tab.
Hello Pete,
I am not specifically talking about the site collection they are already joined to. I am talking about the very top of your sharepoint collection, very very top. Try going to Office.com > Admin > Admin Centers > SharePoint > Under site collections, visit the URL with the very shortest path. Then invite the user or office 365 group here under people area of the site even if they are not using this site.
Oddly, I have tried creating Office 365 Groups with Team Sites, just creating Communication sites or just creating a new private site under site collection but if they are not invited to the very very top level of your SharePoint site in the admin panel, they wont have mobile access.
Thank You,
Brian Knutson
- Hello Pete, No answer yet. I submitted a response to a Microsoft Engineer but they havent responded from the more info I gave them. What I notice is on iOS, the error is "Alamofireerror3" after signing in and on Android it says there is a permission error. Oddly I have escalated the permission for users with the error temporarily and they still get the same error. I have two admin accounts, one has first release access which can't get in the app and another regular admin account which can. Seems to be either an account issue or a microsoft issue Ill let you know if I find something new Thank You, Brian Knutson
