Today, we will discuss short tutorial about how to enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2010. If you follow the steps below correctly, I can make sure anonymous access will work fine. If you have any problem, please contact me. And just the info, if you’re looking for European SharePoint 2010 hosting, you can entrust your site to us.

OK, let’s start the tutorial:

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 Settings. Under Users and Permissions click Site permissions.


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




Hope this post can help.