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:

1. Just add the following to the url: /_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true

2. Start your browser as another user

3. 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 SP2013

• Anonymous
  February 14, 2013
  Don't forget the JavaScript bookmarklet approach :) corypeters.net/.../sharepoint-2013-sign-in-as-another-user

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2013
  Very nice.

• Anonymous
  January 31, 2014
  Very good now can login as different user. Thanks !