Siôn J. Lewis

Connect-PnPOnline: unwanted credential caching

UPDATE: May 2021

This problem, as described in my original post below, has been fixed for the Connnect-PnPOnline, when using the UseWebLogin param. Plus, the ClearTokenCache parameter is no longer available…

Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://[tenant].sharepoint.com" -UseWebLogin;

The “new” (or orignal) experience when calling the above Cmdlet will look like the following screen shot:

Login screen: That didn’t work … Here are a few ideas…

For more options, see https://pnp.github.io/powershell/cmdlets/Connect-PnPOnline.html#example-9

An alternative is to use the Interactive prameter:

Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://[tenant].sharepoint.com" -Interactive;

For more information, see https://pnp.github.io/powershell/cmdlets/Connect-PnPOnline.html#example-10

Original Post

Since creating a new Windows 10 profile (new PC) the Connect-PnPOnline PowerShell CmdLet has been caching my primary credentials while using the UseWebLogin parameter. 

Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://[tenant].sharepoint.com" -UseWebLogin;

This wouldn’t be a problem if I only worked with on tenant…

After a fair amount of Google searching, mucking around with Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge settings I found that running the Connect-PnPOnline CmdLet with the following parameters worked:

Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://[tenant].sharepoint.com" -SPOManagementShell -ClearTokenCache;

Once signed you can revert back to using the UseWebLogin parameter, well until the next time the PowerShell console caches the wrong details… 😉

For more information see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-pnp/connect-pnponline?view=sharepoint-ps

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