Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Requirement: Share a File or Folder Anonymously with external users in SharePoint Online. Prerequisites: Make sure the external sharing policy is set to anyone for the site and the limited access lockdown policy feature is disabled under site collection features! Otherwise, You won’t get the “Anyone with the link” under sharing options….
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What is limited-access user permission lockdown mode? In SharePoint, users are assigned to the “Limited Access” permission level automatically when the account is granted exclusive access (unique permission) only to resources such as list/library/document, etc within the site, but not directly to the site itself. E.g. When you grant access to a…
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Problem: Add items greyed out for Anonymous access users. We got to enable anonymous users to add list Items in a SharePoint list. Solution: By default, Add/Edit/Edit access is disabled for anonymous users. They are granted only with “Read” access. But for a “Contact Us / Feedback” list in our public SharePoint…
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Problem: We Enabled anonymous access to a SharePoint 2013 and users still getting Login prompts! Solution: Here is the check list for troubleshooting. Anonymous access must be turned on both at the Web Application level and at the SharePoint site level. Double-check your settings with How to Enable Anonymous Access in SharePoint…
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How to Enable Anonymous Access in SharePoint using PowerShell? In continuation with my last post, How to Enable Anonymous Access in SharePoint 2013, Here are some nifty PowerShell scripts to manage anonymous access in SharePoint: Enabling anonymous access in SharePoint involves three steps: Enable anonymous access for SharePoint web application Enable anonymous…
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As the name suggests, Anonymous access allows anonymous users to view pages in SharePoint. Setting up anonymous access in SharePoint sites is a common task for most us, Often we do it to enable anonymous access for SharePoint 2013 for public facing sites. Lets see the steps needed to configure anonymous access…
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Accidentally found my SharePoint Test environment’s web services URLs are exposed in Google as anonymous access! and I was able to access the web services anonymously! Even though SharePoint web services exposed by anonymous access, SharePoint will not allow anyone to do beyond their access rights. Say for e.g. In order to…
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Here is my requirement: I want to Show Custom Log-in button for Anonymous user, and once logged in I want to show the Log-out for Authenticated users. Here is the implementation part. 1. create your own Log-in and Log-out button images, place them under: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES Important: Do…
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How to enable anonymous access in SharePoint? To Enable Anonymous access in SharePoint 2010, We need to do the change in Central admin & Site collection: Step 1: Enable Anonymous Access in Central Administration: Go to: Central Administration > Application Management > Manage Web Applications, and Select your web application by highlighting…
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