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look in the SharePoint logfile to fix error.<br />
The IIS Application Pool user did not have permissions on the searchservice database.<br />
<b>After granting the user permissions it worked.<br />
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look in the SharePoint logfile to fix error.
The IIS Application Pool user did not have permissions on the searchservice database.
After granting the user permissions it worked.


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The IIS App Pool and Search service account is one and the same and its a farm account. I have read this answer and therefore I mentioned its the same.
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The IIS App Pool and Search service account is one and the same and its a farm account. I have read this answer and therefore I mentioned its the same.

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We have created a workflow in SP designer to send emails to the user with a certain condition. Somehow &quot;user profile&quot; datasource is not visible in SharePoint designer and returns an error saying Could not retrieve profile schema from server. Make sure profile store is configured properly.<br />
User profile service is running fine and also tried with incremental and full crawl. App pool account and search service account both are same and has necessary permissions.<br />
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Appreciate your help.<br />
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We have created a workflow in SP designer to send emails to the user with a certain condition. Somehow "user profile" datasource is not visible in SharePoint designer and returns an error saying Could not retrieve profile schema from server. Make sure profile store is configured properly.
User profile service is running fine and also tried with incremental and full crawl. App pool account and search service account both are same and has necessary permissions.

Appreciate your help.

SharePoint Designer Error : Could not retrieve profile schema from server

Microsoft Sharepoint is a software platform and family of software products used for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence and collaboration. SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite.