diff --git a/e2e/utils/project-config-utils.ts b/e2e/utils/project-config-utils.ts
index 37990e11c27f3e..d0738ce6b6a9e9 100644
--- a/e2e/utils/project-config-utils.ts
+++ b/e2e/utils/project-config-utils.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export async function readResolvedConfiguration(): Promise<
 > {
   process.env.NX_PROJECT_GLOB_CACHE = 'false';
   const root = tmpProjPath();
-  return (await retrieveProjectConfigurations(root, readNxJson(root)))
+  return (await retrieveProjectConfigurations(root, readNxJson(root), true))
     .projectNodes;
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/retrieve-workspace-files.ts b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/retrieve-workspace-files.ts
index 4c736b3865ad16..6413b58825ca52 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/retrieve-workspace-files.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/project-graph/utils/retrieve-workspace-files.ts
@@ -100,10 +100,12 @@ export async function retrieveWorkspaceFiles(
  *
  * @param workspaceRoot
  * @param nxJson
+ * @param resetWorkspaceContext manually reset the workspace context so that files are updated (this should only be used for testing)
  */
 export async function retrieveProjectConfigurations(
   workspaceRoot: string,
-  nxJson: NxJsonConfiguration
+  nxJson: NxJsonConfiguration,
+  resetWorkspaceContext = false
 ): Promise<{
   externalNodes: Record<string, ProjectGraphExternalNode>;
   projectNodes: Record<string, ProjectConfiguration>;
@@ -115,7 +117,13 @@ export async function retrieveProjectConfigurations(
   );
 
   const globs = configurationGlobs(workspaceRoot, plugins);
-  return _retrieveProjectConfigurations(workspaceRoot, nxJson, plugins, globs);
+  return _retrieveProjectConfigurations(
+    workspaceRoot,
+    nxJson,
+    plugins,
+    globs,
+    resetWorkspaceContext
+  );
 }
 
 export async function retrieveProjectConfigurationsWithAngularProjects(
@@ -166,7 +174,8 @@ function _retrieveProjectConfigurations(
   workspaceRoot: string,
   nxJson: NxJsonConfiguration,
   plugins: NxPluginV2[],
-  globs: string[]
+  globs: string[],
+  resetWorkspaceContext = false
 ): {
   externalNodes: Record<string, ProjectGraphExternalNode>;
   projectNodes: Record<string, ProjectConfiguration>;
@@ -186,7 +195,8 @@ function _retrieveProjectConfigurations(
         projectNodes: projectConfigurations.projects,
         externalNodes: projectConfigurations.externalNodes,
       };
-    }
+    },
+    resetWorkspaceContext
   ) as {
     externalNodes: Record<string, ProjectGraphExternalNode>;
     projectNodes: Record<string, ProjectConfiguration>;
diff --git a/packages/nx/src/utils/workspace-context.ts b/packages/nx/src/utils/workspace-context.ts
index e3bc726a034ec3..e95b149409ea1b 100644
--- a/packages/nx/src/utils/workspace-context.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/src/utils/workspace-context.ts
@@ -36,14 +36,21 @@ export function getProjectConfigurationFilesFromContext(
 export function getProjectConfigurationsFromContext(
   workspaceRoot: string,
   globs: string[],
-  parseConfigurations: (files: string[]) => ConfigurationParserResult
+  parseConfigurations: (files: string[]) => ConfigurationParserResult,
+  resetWorkspaceContext = false
 ) {
-  ensureContextAvailable(workspaceRoot);
+  ensureContextAvailable(workspaceRoot, resetWorkspaceContext);
   return workspaceContext.getProjectConfigurations(globs, parseConfigurations);
 }
 
-function ensureContextAvailable(workspaceRoot: string) {
-  if (!workspaceContext && workspaceContext?.workspaceRoot !== workspaceRoot) {
+function ensureContextAvailable(
+  workspaceRoot: string,
+  resetWorkspaceContext = false
+) {
+  if (
+    resetWorkspaceContext ||
+    (!workspaceContext && workspaceContext?.workspaceRoot !== workspaceRoot)
+  ) {
     setupWorkspaceContext(workspaceRoot);
   }
 }