Enable Anonymous Access in SharePoint 2010

 Its not difficult to configure anonymous access in MS SharePoint 2010. Not much different then SharePoint 2007 set up, the only difference is the GUI or the Ribbon.



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

 2. Select the site you want to enable anonymous access on 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.

 After Which , 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


That’s all, If you followed these steps properly you should have now Anonymous Access enabled.

Sharepoint 2010 - Health Analyzer alerts

Microsoft has come up with a new tool in Sharepoint 2010 - Health Analyzer. Its helps us diagnose and resolve issues related to configuration , performance and usage .

we can check the Environment health using the feature .

To get to the health analyzer we need to go to the central admin

1. first check whether the account that we are using is a member of the Farm Administrators group.
2. Click monitoring
3. under Monitoring you will find Health Analyzer section
4. Under which you can click on Review problems and solutions
5. On the Review problem and resolve page click on the Alert that you want to resolve
6. Follow the steps given in the Remedy section of the Review problems and solutions
7. After you have followed all the steps given .
    Click Reanalyze Now to confirm that the issue is resolved.
8. If the issue is resolved, the alert status changes to 4-Success.

This is a Best Automated tool which Analyzes the server farm and comes up with some good solutions on its own . you can try this at regular Intervals .