diff --git a/tableauserverclient/server/request_factory.py b/tableauserverclient/server/request_factory.py
index c204e7217..1336576b5 100644
--- a/tableauserverclient/server/request_factory.py
+++ b/tableauserverclient/server/request_factory.py
@@ -1061,8 +1061,13 @@ class Connection(object):
     @_tsrequest_wrapped
     def update_req(self, xml_request: ET.Element, connection_item: "ConnectionItem") -> None:
         connection_element = ET.SubElement(xml_request, "connection")
-        if connection_item.server_address is not None:
-            connection_element.attrib["serverAddress"] = connection_item.server_address.lower()
+        if (server_address := connection_item.server_address) is not None:
+            if (conn_type := connection_item.connection_type) is not None:
+                if conn_type.casefold() != "odata".casefold():
+                    server_address = server_address.lower()
+            else:
+                server_address = server_address.lower()
+            connection_element.attrib["serverAddress"] = server_address
         if connection_item.server_port is not None:
             connection_element.attrib["serverPort"] = str(connection_item.server_port)
         if connection_item.username is not None:
diff --git a/test/assets/odata_connection.xml b/test/assets/odata_connection.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0c16fcca6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/assets/odata_connection.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api https://help.tableau.com/samples/en-us/rest_api/ts-api_3_23.xsd">
+    <connections>
+        <connection id="17376070-64d1-4d17-acb4-a56e4b5b1768" type="odata" embedPassword="false" serverAddress="https://odata.website.com/TestODataEndpoint" userName="" queryTaggingEnabled="false">
+            <datasource id="d82f784e-178f-4b7e-a723-d8f615155a42" name="People (services.odata.org/ODataPeopleService/People)"/>
+        </connection>
+    </connections>
+</tsResponse>
diff --git a/test/test_workbook.py b/test/test_workbook.py
index ac3d44b28..025fc55ab 100644
--- a/test/test_workbook.py
+++ b/test/test_workbook.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 GET_EMPTY_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, "workbook_get_empty.xml")
 GET_INVALID_DATE_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, "workbook_get_invalid_date.xml")
 GET_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, "workbook_get.xml")
+ODATA_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, "odata_connection.xml")
 POPULATE_CONNECTIONS_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, "workbook_populate_connections.xml")
 POPULATE_PDF = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, "populate_pdf.pdf")
 POPULATE_POWERPOINT = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, "populate_powerpoint.pptx")
@@ -944,3 +945,31 @@ def test_bad_download_response(self) -> None:
             )
             file_path = self.server.workbooks.download("9dbd2263-16b5-46e1-9c43-a76bb8ab65fb", td)
             self.assertTrue(os.path.exists(file_path))
+
+    def test_odata_connection(self) -> None:
+        self.baseurl = self.server.workbooks.baseurl
+        workbook = TSC.WorkbookItem("project", "test")
+        workbook._id = "06b944d2-959d-4604-9305-12323c95e70e"
+        connection = TSC.ConnectionItem()
+        url = "https://odata.website.com/TestODataEndpoint"
+        connection.server_address = url
+        connection._connection_type = "odata"
+        connection._id = "17376070-64d1-4d17-acb4-a56e4b5b1768"
+
+        creds = TSC.ConnectionCredentials("", "", True)
+        connection.connection_credentials = creds
+        with open(ODATA_XML, "rb") as f:
+            response_xml = f.read().decode("utf-8")
+
+        with requests_mock.mock() as m:
+            m.put(f"{self.baseurl}/{workbook.id}/connections/{connection.id}", text=response_xml)
+            self.server.workbooks.update_connection(workbook, connection)
+
+            history = m.request_history
+
+        request = history[0]
+        xml = fromstring(request.body)
+        xml_connection = xml.find(".//connection")
+
+        assert xml_connection is not None
+        self.assertEqual(xml_connection.get("serverAddress"), url)