Enable anonymous access in sharepoint 2010

In this blog, we learn how to enable anonymous access in sharepoint 2010.

Follow below steps:

1.     Starting in Central Administration, under Application Management, click on the Manage web applications.

2.     Make sure you select the site you want to enable anonymous access and click on the Authentication Providers icon.

3.     On the Authentication Providers pop-up window click on the Default zone.

4.     Under Edit Authentication, check Enable anonymous access and click Save.

5.     Going back to Web Application Management click on the Anonymous Policy icon.

6.     Under Anonymous Access Restrictions select your Zone and set the Permissions to None – No policy and click Save.

7.     Now, web application will allow anonymous access to be set. So, navigate to your top level site collection for the web application. Click the Site Actions > Site permissions.

8.     Under Permission Tools, click Anonymous Access icon and set the permissions to Entire Web site and click OK.

 That’s all...

 Now you should have Anonymous Access enabled.

Product applies to:

SharePoint Server 2010

      SharePoint Foundation 2010