In SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016 we don’t see an option to sign in as different user. In this article we will see 2 various options to sign in as different user in SharePoint 2013 & SharePoint 2016.
- Internet Explorer’s Different User Option
- Navigate to the Close Connection Page
Internet Explorer’s Different User Option:
We can impersonate the internet explorer as below to login achieve login as different user.
- Right click on Internet Explorer and select “Run as administrator” and key in the different user credentials.
- Once the Internet explorer opens browse to the required SharePoint site. Now you can see the site will be rendered with different user than the windows logged in user.
Navigate to the Close Connection Page:
The quickest way to accomplish this is to navigate to the Close Connection page. Navigate the following URL in your browser:
http://<site URL>/_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true
The above one is the sharepoint 2013 sign in as different user url. Hope this article will be helpful.
