Sharing project failed after reaching the maximum number of retries.

[XiaoqingDeng]

Hi does anyone know how it happend? I cannot share my MS project to any group today (was able to before). Already tried many groups for few hours now. Thanks

[#2]

That is the strangest error message I have ever seen in Project for the Web. I personally have never experienced this problem. Question - Do you still have the same problem today? I know that some issues with Project for the Web go away on their own. I do not know why that happens, however! Please let us know and we will try to help you.

[#3 · Accepted solution]

Thank you @Dale Howard yes when I came back to work the next Monday, and tried again then worked. Very strange Friday it didn't allow me to share. But anyway works now. Thank you!

[#4]

I am having exactly the same issue @XiaoqingDeng did it completely disappear?

[#5]

I am also seeing this error since months time!!

[#6]

I'm also having the same problem.

[#7]

@XiaoqingDeng So I got the fix identified. When you share the Project with a group i.e., the Azure AD group, the group must not have a hidden membership set. The group has to be either Public or Private but if the group has a hidden membership set, you can not assign the project to it. 

Look at the attachment, I have pointed out 2 types of groups of 2 different types. Hope this helps!!

[#8]

Re: Sharing project failed after reaching the maximum number of retries. - @Dale Howard I have found uut a fix for below topic





 So I got the fix identified. When you share the Project with a group i.e., the Azure AD group, the group must not have a hidden membership set. The group has to be either Public or Private but if the group has a hidden membership set, you can not assign the project to it. 



Look at the attachment, I have pointed out 2 types of groups of 2 different types. Hope this helps!!

[#9]

AmarHonnungar --

Brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing the solution to this annoying problem. Much appreciated. We all learned something new today!

[#10]

I'm a bit confused because I guess that my Microsoft 365 group has no hidden membership set. Where can I check this ?
Nevertheless, I got the same error message when I try to assign this group to a new P4TW project :
"Sharing project '' failed after reaching the maximum number of retries. Group '' still exists, please try sharing with this group again."

[#11]

The image and solution is not clear, could you kindly elaborate. Really appreciate your help here