Environment variables

PnP PowerShell supports a few environment variables you can set to control some of its behaviour. Besides environment variables you can set, PnP PowerShell will also set a few environments for you to use.

Environment variables you can set

Environment variable	Description
MicrosoftGraphEndPoint	Overrides the default Microsoft Graph endpoint (https://graph.microsoft.com) to use
ENTRAID_APP_ID	When set Connect-PnPOnline will use this value for authentication. See more info at Set a default Client ID
ENTRAID_CLIENT_ID	See ENTRAID_APP_ID
AZURE_USERNAME	A way to set the username to use when authenticating with Connect-PnPOnline -EnvironmentVariable
AZURE_PASSWORD	A way to set the password to use when authenticating with Connect-PnPOnline -EnvironmentVariable
AZURE_CLIENT_ID	A way to set the application registration id/client id to use when authenticating with Connect-PnPOnline -EnvironmentVariable
AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH	Allows you to set the path to the certificate to use to authenticate with Connect-PnPOnline -EnvironmentVariable
AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD	Allows you to set the password to access the certificate to use to authenticate with Connect-PnPOnline -EnvironmentVariable
PNPPOWERSHELL_DISABLETELEMETRY	Set to 'false' (lowercase) to disable telemetry
PNPPSCOMPLETERTIMEOUT	Defines the timeout to use when using << tab >> completion with PnP PowerShell (available in version 2.99.45 and higher). Tab completion defaults to 2 seconds timeout. The environment variable expects a value in milliseconds. E.g. 1000 equals 1 second. Set the value to 0 to disable tab completion.

Environment variables set for you

Environment variable	Description
PNPPSHOST	The fully qualified hostname of the tenant you are connected to, e.g. yourtenant.sharepoint.com
PNPPSSITE	The server relative path to the site you are connected to, e.g. /sites/yoursite