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How to Enable Anonymous Access on a SharePoint Site

Tim Wilson — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:18:03 +0000

Anonymous Access in SharePoint 3.0

With Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 new features such as the Wikis & Blogs, you may want to allow access to these sites to visitors outside of your organization. Allowing Anonymous Access to your Site is the simplest solution.

To allow Anonymous Access, please follow the instructions below.

How to allow Anonymous Access:

Open the site on which you want to enable Anonymous Access

For Example:

http://sp.yourdomain..com

On the Site Actions menu top right of the web-page, click Site Settings

NOTE: On a site, for which the Site Actions menu is customized, point to Site Settings and then click the settings that you want to view. On the Site Settings page, in the Users and Permissions column, click Advanced Permissions

On the Permissions page, within the Settings menu, click Anonymous Access

On the Change Anonymous Access Settings page, select the parts of your Web Site that you want to give anonymous access to

NOTE: Once the Anonymous Access has been setup, please allow 2-3 minutes for it to take effect.

Caution: Please note that when you enable Anonymous Access you are allowing anyone on the Internet the ability to view your content. Enabling Anonymous Access can also result in increased bandwidth usage. Try a Link2Exchange Free SharePoint Trial - it comes with unlimited bandwidth and users.

Adding a SharePoint Site to Outlook as a Folder

Tim Wilson — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:11:53 +0000

Overview: This is useful for people who want to be able to access their SharePoint site from within Outlook.Procedure:

Launch and Login into Outlook

Right click on your Outlook INBOX and choose New Folder

Name the new folder, for example SharePoint

Simply find the new folder within your Outlook folder list, right click on your new SharePoint folder and choose properties

Within the SharePoint Properties folder choose Home Page. Check off “Show home page by default for this folder”.

Type out the address of your SharePoint URL: For Example: http://sp.yourdomainname..com/

Click apply to the SharePoint Property folder

Now double click on your new SharePoint sub-folder and Login with your username and password, your site will then launch within Outlook.

Hosted SharePoint Remote File Sharing and Collaboration Nirvana

Matthew Palis — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:27:46 +0000

For years we have had customers of ours asking about remote file sharing services.Remote file sharing is a hot item – as it should be!

Many companies have their staff geographically dispersed making the traditional file server solution a cumbersome solution for remote workers. Who wants to deal with and support VPN connections from your main office to all your remote workers – not a fun ongoing activity. Fortunately; Microsoft has fine tuned SharePoint Services for remote access to files. Best of all its jam packed with team collaboration tools that integrate nicely with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.

Wouldn’t it be nice to access, edit and store your files on a secure remote server that you could access from any computer connected to the internet..even your mobile PDA phone?

Wouldn’t it be unreal to get an automatic email notification when one of your team members updates or adds a file to a particular folder?

This is just the tip of the iceberg on what Hosted SharePoint can do for you and your team.

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PS – We will have more tips and tricks on getting the most from SharePoint in the coming weeks…so stay tuned!