{"id":177,"date":"2016-03-21T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edcortes.ph\/?p=668"},"modified":"2021-07-10T03:32:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T03:32:40","slug":"sharepoint-2013-log-in-as-a-different-user-missing-a-simple-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Sharepoint 2013 Log in as a different user missing, a simple workaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their infinite wisdom, Microsoft decided to remove the \u2018sign in as another user\u2018 option from the UI. For consultants and developers who need to test their solutions in an ongoing manner, user accounts need to be switched in order to test the myriad of permission issues sometimes experienced by users.<\/p>\n<p>After some extensive research I have found a solution:<\/p>\n<p>Simply append the following behind your URL \u2013 \/_layouts\/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true<\/p>\n<p>e.g http:\/\/yoursite\/_layouts\/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/potifar5000.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/18\/sharepoint-2013-log-in-as-a-different-user-missing\/\">Potifar5000<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their infinite wisdom, Microsoft decided to remove the \u2018sign in as another user\u2018 option from the UI. For consultants and developers who need to test their solutions in an ongoing manner, user accounts need to be switched in order to test the myriad of permission issues sometimes experienced by users. After some extensive research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-notes","category-sharepoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}