Providing Anonymous Access

As discussed previously in this chapter, anonymous access may need to be provided to SharePoint 2003 sites. Anonymous access must be enabled from within Internet Information Services (IIS) and can be enabled for the portal site directly, or for a specific virtual server. Then the SharePoint 2003 portal must be configured to allow anonymous access.

Anonymous access needs to be configured from within the IIS Manager, as shown in Figure 7.14, and can be configured for the default website or for a Virtual Server created separately that points to the same database and uses the same application pools. This is significant because if anonymous access is allowed for the portal site directly, no users will need to authenticate ...

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