diff --git a/tools/pipeline-owners-extractor/Azure.Sdk.Tools.PipelineOwnersExtractor/Program.cs b/tools/pipeline-owners-extractor/Azure.Sdk.Tools.PipelineOwnersExtractor/Program.cs
index cfd0199db6f..6ccafe9a312 100644
--- a/tools/pipeline-owners-extractor/Azure.Sdk.Tools.PipelineOwnersExtractor/Program.cs
+++ b/tools/pipeline-owners-extractor/Azure.Sdk.Tools.PipelineOwnersExtractor/Program.cs
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ public static async Task Main(string[] args)
                 .UseContentRoot(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location))
                 .ConfigureServices((context, services) =>
                 {
-                    services.AddSingleton<TokenCredential, DefaultAzureCredential>();
+                    services.AddSingleton<TokenCredential, ChainedTokenCredential>(
+                        DefaultAzureCredentialWithoutManagedIdentity);
                     services.AddSingleton<ISecretClientProvider, SecretClientProvider>();
                     services.Configure<PipelineOwnerSettings>(context.Configuration);
                     services
@@ -46,6 +47,47 @@ public static async Task Main(string[] args)
             await processor.ExecuteAsync();
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Instead of using DefaultAzureCredential [1] we use ChainedTokenCredential [2] which works
+        /// as DefaultAzureCredential, but most importantly, it excludes ManagedIdentityCredential.
+        /// We do so because there is an undesired managed identity available when we run this
+        /// code in CI/CD pipelines, which takes priority over the desired AzureCliCredential coming
+        /// from the calling AzureCLI@2 task.
+        ///
+        /// Besides, the returned ChainedTokenCredential also excludes following credentials:
+        ///
+        /// - SharedTokenCredential, as it appears to fail on linux with following error:
+        ///   SharedTokenCacheCredential authentication failed: Persistence check failed. Data was written but it could not be read. Possible cause: on Linux, LibSecret is installed but D-Bus isn't running because it cannot be started over SSH.
+        ///
+        /// - VisualStudioCodeCredential, as it doesn't work, as explained here:
+        ///   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/overview/azure/identity-readme?view=azure-dotnet#defaultazurecredential
+        ///
+        /// The remaining credentials are in the same order as in DefaultAzureCredential.
+        ///
+        /// For debugging aids helping determine which credential is used and how,
+        /// please see the following tags in azure-sdk-tools repo:
+        /// - kojamroz_debug_aid_default_azure_credentials
+        ///   Code from @hallipr showing how to get credential data using Microsoft Graph and JwtSecurityToken
+        /// - kojamroz_debug_aid_diag_log_on_creds
+        ///   Code from kojamroz showing how to use Azure.Identity diagnostic output to get information on which
+        ///   credential ends up being in use (additional flags must be set to see the full info [3])
+        /// 
+        /// Full context provided here, on internal Azure SDK Engineering System Teams channel:
+        /// https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:59dbfadafb5e41c4890e2cd3d74cc7ba@thread.skype/1675713800408?tenantId=72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47&groupId=3e17dcb0-4257-4a30-b843-77f47f1d4121&parentMessageId=1675713800408&teamName=Azure%20SDK&channelName=Engineering%20System%20%F0%9F%9B%A0%EF%B8%8F&createdTime=1675713800408
+        ///
+        /// [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/overview/azure/identity-readme?view=azure-dotnet#defaultazurecredential
+        /// [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/overview/azure/identity-readme?view=azure-dotnet#define-a-custom-authentication-flow-with-chainedtokencredential
+        /// [3] https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/blob/main/sdk/identity/Azure.Identity/README.md#logging
+        /// </summary>
+        private static Func<IServiceProvider, ChainedTokenCredential> DefaultAzureCredentialWithoutManagedIdentity
+            => _
+                => new ChainedTokenCredential(
+                    new EnvironmentCredential(),
+                    new VisualStudioCredential(),
+                    new AzureCliCredential(),
+                    new AzurePowerShellCredential(),
+                    new InteractiveBrowserCredential());
+
         private static AzureDevOpsService CreateAzureDevOpsService(IServiceProvider provider)
         {
             var logger = provider.GetRequiredService<ILogger<AzureDevOpsService>>();