How to enable anonymous Access to SharePoint 2013 Websites or Anonymous access restrictions is grayed out

How  to enable anonymous Access to SharePoint 2013 Websites or Anonymous access restrictions is grayed out

Anonymous access is the permission  that every user can able to logon to the sites without having the credentials. Follow the below steps to enable the anonymous access.

1.    Central Administration->under Application Management->click on the Manage web applications.

2.    Make sure you select the site you want to enable anonymous access -> 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.

If you followed these steps properly you should have now Anonymous Access enabled.

 

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