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mathysbt
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

Access SharePoint Site with Different Credentials

I am trying to access a SharePoint site that requires different credentials than I use for my Office 365 account. Is there a way to login with different credentials to access a specific sharepoint site?

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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    Community Champion
    10 years ago

    When you specify the credentials for the SharePoint site, you can enter any OAuth credentials and you can specify whether or not it is for the specific site or essentially all sites in the root path.

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      mathysbt
      Regular Visitor
      10 years ago

      Greg_Deckler Thanks for your reply. I noticed that when accessing the SharePoint site through Power BI desktop, I get the option to sign in with different credentials. However, I am still not able to connect for some reason. I have included two screenshots. One shows the error I get when trying to access the SharePoint site online. The other shows the error I get when I use my different credentials in the desktop application. I know those credentials work because I have accessed this SharePoint site as a mapped network drive. The SharePoint is 2007 if that has to do with anything?12

      • Greg_Deckler's avatar
        Greg_Deckler
        Community Champion
        10 years ago

        mathysbt, I just saw Anonymous's reply in my notification feed to this thread and reread it. I seem to have missed a key element. Yes, the site being SharePoint 2007 probably has everything to do with it. 2007 only supported WCF, not OData, OData was introduced in 2010. I would be highly surprised if you could connect to a SharePoint 2007 list using Power BI. I'd try it, but I don't have an environment to test with. I upgraded them all! :(