Juan Carlos

How to Enable Anonymous access to a SharePoint 2013 site!

October 15th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: CloudShare, Demos & POCs, SharePoint | Tags: , ,


As is the case in previous versions, you can configure SharePoint 2013 sites to be accessed by anonymous users. In this article I will show the steps needed to configure anonymous access to an existing SharePoint 2013 site.

  • Navigate to the SharePoint 2013 Central Administration in your SharePoint 2013 environment. Under Application Management section, click the “Manage web applications” link.
  • Select one of the available web applications and press the “Authentication providers” button available in the Ribbon. A modal dialog showing the authentication providers available per zone is displayed. As you can see, in a basic scenario only the “Default” zone is listed.

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  • Click the “Default” link so a new modal dialog is displayed. Just check the “Enable anonymous access” option and press the “Save” button.

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  • Navigate to one of the site collections you have created under the configured web application and go to “Configure -> Site Settings”. Under the “Users and permissions” section, click the “People and groups” link.

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  • As you can see, SharePoint 2013’s Ribbon display is an “Anonymous Access” button that allows you to configure how anonymous users can access to the site.

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  • Press the “Anonymous Access” button in the Ribbon so the related configuration modal dialog is shown. In this dialog you have three configuration options, just click the first one that provides full anonymous access to the site. Press the “OK” button.

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  • Back to the “People and Groups” page, check there is a new group called “Anonymous users” available in the list.

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  • We are almost done. To finish, start a new instance of a web browser and check that you don’t need to provide credentials information since anonymous access is enabled on the entire site.

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And that’s all about how to enable anonymous access to a SharePoint 2013 site. I recommend you to check how it works in your SharePoint 2013 CloudShare environment.

Happy CloudSharing!

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About the author:
With 8 years of experience in the TIC sector, what best define me is the interest and knowledge of new technologies as a natural way for attending and solving customer problems and needs. Mi career in the TIC sector, and particularly in the .NET platform started in 2003, just after finishing my studies at the university, in the global worldwide consultancy company Accenture. There, I had the opportunity of working during 3 years in big national and international projects performing different task and roles: development of VB.NET applications, application test and deployment, management of small development teams and so on. In May 2006 I left Accenture and started a new adventure at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Cantabria (CIIN) as a Solutions Architect. In this new stage, I have had the opportunity of knowing deeply a variety of Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint, Office 365, Windows Azure, Visual Studio, SQL Server Reporting Services, BizTalk, LINQ, Entity Framework, etc. At the CIIN I perform evangelism activities just around these technologies, and I have the honor of belonging to one of the more specialized organizations in SharePoint in Spain.
  • Pete

    This sort of works… but in most browsers, the login is still brought up. Hitting cancel allows access, but this is annoying. I”ve read you have to allow anonymous access to the Master pages and site templates. Can you add this to the tutorial?

    • tom

      check if all items on your page are published (could be scripts, images, …)

  • Eric Smith

    You must click “site permissions” not “people and groups”

  • yjk

    Hello Juan,
    Wlll anonymous access also be possible for access 2013 webdatabases?
    Greetings Ynte jan

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