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Kalpesh Prajapati

Enabling anonymous access for a site collection in MOSS 2007

Suppose my Site Collection is http://servername/sites/CGOmain on MOSS 2007

Steps 1:

Go to “SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration”
Select “Application Management” Tab
Select “Authentication Provider” under “Application Security” group
Select your web application.
Select on the zone where you want o enable anonymous access. You will find check box “Enable Anonymous access”. Check it.
Click “Save”
When you set this option, anonymous access will also be enabled in IIS on your front-end servers.

Steps 2:

Open New Browser and navigate to your site where you want enable anonymous access.
Select “Site Actions” Menu.
In side menu select “Site Settings” -> “Modify All Site settings”.
Now you are on “Site Settings” page. Select “Advanced permissions” under “Users and Permissions” group.
Now you are on “Permissions” page. Select Menu “Settings” -> “Anonymous Access”.
Now you are on “Change Anonymous Access Settings” page. Select radio button “Entire Web Site”
Press “OK” button.

Here we go. Site is now configured for anonymous access.

Published 19 July 2007 07:35 by kalpesh.prajapati
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Jomit Vaghela said:

Now,

What if we want to disable the anonymous access for the subsites ?

or

What if we want to have the anonymous access enabled for public sites but do not want the users to get to http://[server]/Pages/Forms/AllItems.aspx ?

To disable the anonymous access for the subsites we need to access the admin page for the subsite directly from the url

eg: http://[server]/[subsitename]/_layouts/setanon.aspx and change anonymous access to Nothing.

To prevent the users from accessing the view form pages there is a feature called “ViewFormsPagesLockdown” feature or Lockdown feature which can be used via stsadmin.

Eg : stsadm.exe –o activatefeature –url <site collection url> -filename ViewFormPagesLockdown\feature.xml

If you already have anonymous access enabled then you might want to disable it and then enable it again.

For more details checkout the enterprise blog at : http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2007/05/12/anonymous-users-forms-pages-and-the-lockdown-feature.aspx

Cheers,

July 19, 2007 11:20

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