Error when opening site in SharePoint Designer 2013

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This week we came across an interesting error which took us some time to troubleshoot. There is a lot of conflicting information on the error online so I thought I would give you my experience.
The error occurs when you attempt to open a site using SharePoint Designer 2013. You receive the following. The server could not complete your request. For more specific information, click the Details button. Designer will also crash hand you will need to kill the task in your task manager.
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On a side note when you choose the details button for more specific information you are returned a blank form which is unhelpful.
The solution was to enable some authentication options on the SharePoint Web Services site in iis.
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I enabled Anonymous Authentication, Asp.net Impersonation, Forms Authentication and Windows authentication.  I found these were disabled when I inspected them. Finally run an iisreset.
Interestingly this was not a new server and users had used SharePoint Designer with sites only the week prior. Unfortunately we were unable to discover the root cause of the issue. Its possible changes were made to Authentication but highly improbable. If anyone has any suggestions as to what may have caused these changes to be required please do comment below. Hope this helps you in the future.

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