Solution for 401 Unauthorized Error while Using configuring Postman to send REST request to SharePoint Server

Dear readers,

Today I'm gonna share with a very simple way to deal with the error 401  Unauthorized that you may receive when working with Postman and trying to get data back via SharePoint Rest Api.

More details on this case scenario can be found in this arcticle: http://tech.bool.se/basic-rest-request-sharepoint-using-postman/

ScreenShot of the error is hereunder

The solution is to enable Basic Authentification in IIS Settings, Authentification.

Yes, as simple as that :)

Enjoy coding

Ibtissam