Logging in as a different user in SharePoint 2013 Preview
When you start to play with SharePoint 2013 preview you will soon find that our good ol' 'Sign in as a different user' is gone:
Not sure why they have removed it. As there are some issues with this (even in 2010), I think it might be done because of that, but for most people this will be missed.
Luckily this is only a cosmetic change, as the plumbing is still there.
There are three ways of doing this:
Just add the following to the url: /_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true
Start your browser as another user
Hack welcome.ascx by adding the code below before the SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate tag with id ID_RequestAccess
(https://nickgrattan.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/sign-in-as-different-user-and-sharepoint-2013/ )<SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" ID="ID_LoginAsDifferentUser"
Text="<%$Resources:wss,personalactions_loginasdifferentuser%>"
Description="<%$Resources:wss,personalactions_loginasdifferentuserdescription%>"
MenuGroupId="100"
Sequence="100"
UseShortId="true"
/>
Obviously modifying control templates is not something we should be doing once the product goes RTM. Lets hope product group decides to put everything back where it belongs J
Comments
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
That's cool..Thanks for sharing.. a lot changes in SP2013Anonymous
February 14, 2013
Don't forget the JavaScript bookmarklet approach :) corypeters.net/.../sharepoint-2013-sign-in-as-another-userAnonymous
December 17, 2013
Very nice.Anonymous
January 31, 2014
Very good now can login as different user. Thanks !