1. Starting in Central Administration, under Application Management, click on the Manage web applications.
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2. Make sure you select the site you want to enable anonymous access and click on the Authentication Providers icon.
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3. On the Authentication Providers pop-up window click on the Default zone.
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4. Under Edit Authentication, check Enable anonymous access and click Save.
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5. Going back to Web Application Management click on the Anonymous Policy icon.
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6. Under Anonymous Access Restrictions select your Zone and set the Permissions to None – No policy and click Save.
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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 Settings. Under Users and Permissions click Site permissions.
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8. Under Permission Tools, click Anonymous Access icon and set the permissions to Entire Web site and click OK.
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That’s all, folks! If you followed these steps properly you should have now Anonymous Access enabled.
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Method 2: Using SharePoint 2010 Central Administration
1. Open Central Administration. Then click Manage Web Applications listed under Application Management
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2. In the Application Management screen, locate your web application. The application we will use to extend is SharePoint-8080
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3. Select the application and click on Extend
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4. Next Screen will be like below. Enter your details. You can use host headers in case you have multiple websites running on the same port in your IIS web server.
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5. Scroll down and you will find the Public URL specifications. This setting configures the SharePoint website for public access. You can customize the settings and the zone as per the requirement.
For the zones you have four choices – Intranet, Internet, Custom and Extranet. Click OK.
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6. Now your web application has extended. You verify either directly by entering http://servername:Port or you can check website from IIS manager as shown below:
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7. If your site doesn’t come up please restart IIS web server using this command
“iisreset /noforce”
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