In a real-world scenario, one might require to enable anonymous access to an existing web application.

How to do that?

Solution

Open Central Administration then slelct "Manage Web Applications".

Manage Web Applications

Select the web application and choose "Authentication Providers" from the ribbon.

Authentication Providers

In the dialog, click on the default item.

default item

You will get the following dialog.

dialog

Check the "Enable anonymous access" checkbox and click the "OK" button.

Your site is ready with Anonymous Access. Open a new browser window and test it.

Note

When creating a web application, we can choose the Anonymous option from the wizard itself.

References

Grant permissions to anonymous users

Summary

In this article we explored how to enable Anonymous access for an existing web application.