{"id":803,"date":"2017-02-10T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.binarybits.net\/?p=803"},"modified":"2017-02-10T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T04:58:33","slug":"sharepoint-designer-the-user-id-or-password-is-incorrect-error-sharepoint-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.binarybits.net\/sharepoint-designer-the-user-id-or-password-is-incorrect-error-sharepoint-online\/","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint Designer – The user id or password is incorrect error – SharePoint Online"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recently when I tried to add my SharePoint Online (Office 365) site in SharePoint Designer 2013, the login page would repeatedly give the error “the user id or password is incorrect”.<\/p>\n
the user id or password is incorrect<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I tried both with my domain account and onmicrosoft.com account and was making sure I chose “Work account” when prompted and still it didn’t work.<\/p>\n
Then I realised that the multi factor authentication has been enabled recently.<\/p>\n
Use “App Password” in SharePoint Designer login page when multi factor authentication is enabled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So I created an app password and tried logging in and it worked.<\/p>\n
The web based login page rendered within the designer’s doesn’t highlight or warn you if you are using multi factored authentication or app specific password<\/p>\n