A study of the glycosylation properties of 1‐thiomannosazides with a variety of electron‐withdrawing substituents in combination with the Ph2SO/Tf2O and NIS/TMSOTf reagent systems is presented. Further, assembly of the fully protected trisaccharide 26, which corresponds to the repeating unit of the enterobacterial common antigen, using both an orthogonal and a chemoselective coupling strategy and based on the outcome of our glycosylation studies, is discussed. (© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2007)