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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Firewall settings for SharePoint Farm

 Firewall settings for SharePoint Farm

Some times in SharePoint when we access web sites, search and configure alerts we see network related errors even though we configured everything is good. There could be so many reasons for that. One could be Firewall. In this article I am providing the steps how and where to check for the firewall issue.

On each SharePoint 2013 Server, we will need to set a firewall rule to allow SharePoint intra-farm traffic and HTTP/HTTPS traffic. Alternatively, you can disable the Windows Firewall if you choose and if you have another firewall solution.

You can set the Windows Firewall rules by navigating to the Control Panel, then click System and Security, then click Windows Firewall, and finally click Advanced settings. In the Inbound Rules area, ensure that the server allows connections on port 80 (HTTP) and port 443 (HTTPS). Add the ports listed in the table below for the SharePoint 2013 inter-farm communication by following these steps: 

  

1.    In the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window, click Inbound Rules.

2.    In the Actions panel, click New rule…

3.    In the New Inbound Rule Wizard window, select Ports as the Rule Type and click Next.

4.    Select the appropriate choice between TCP and UDP, and enter the desired port(s) for the Specific local ports. Click Next.

5.    Click Next. On the Profile screen, click Next.

6.    On the Name screen, enter the desired name and click Finish.

                    

                     

Rule Name	TCP or UDP	Ports
SharePoint Web Traffic	TCP	80,443
SharePoint Search Index	TCP	16500-16519
SharePoint Farm Communication	TCP	32843,32844,32845
SharePoint Profile Synchronizing (TCP)	TCP	5725,389,88,53
SharePoint Profile Synchronizing (UDP)	UDP	389,88,53,464
SharePoint User Code Service	TCP	32846
SharePoint SMTP Service	TCP	25

 

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