If you done with developing your SharePoint based website and you would like to make your site
or part of it available to everyone in your organization or available via
Internet you have reached the right place. I would like to note that Anonymous
Access is not for everyone and needs to be planned out carefully.
1.)
Navigate to SharePoint 2010 Central
Administration -> Application management -> Manage
web applications.
2.)
Choose the web application you
would like to configure and click onAuthentication Providers.
3.)
Click on Default
4.) On the
Edit Authentication screen choose the Enable anonymous accessoption
and click on save.
5.) Our next step is to
open your SharePoint site -> Site
Actions -> Site Permissions
6.) Click on Anonymous
Access
7.) Specify which
parts of your web site you would like to enable anonymous
access for and click on OK.
8.) Notice that a new
entry was added to the list of permissions
9.) Navigate to Site
Actions -> Site Settings
10.) Navigate
to Galleries -> Master Pages and page layouts
11.) Click on the
library tab
12.) Click on Library
Permissions
13.) Click
on Anonymous Access
14.) Specify the
permission level of anonymous users. In our case we would like anonymous users
to be able to view items.
15.) Navigate to Site
Actions –> View All Site Content
16.) Click on Style
Library and repeat the actions in steps 11 – 14.
17.) That’s it! Now we
can test our configuration. Sign out of your web site, close your browser and
then reopen.
If
we see the “Sign In” button on the top of the screen that means our configuration
is correct and we can access the site anonymously. :)
