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Anonymous Blog under publishing site in Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Some web-facing sites may need to implement a blog as part of the hierarchy. There are a few things to keep in mind when trying to get an anonymous blog to work under a publishing site.

  1. Make sure that in Central Administration > Application management, you have enabled anonymous acces on your web app
  2. Make sure that you have enabled anonymous access in your site settings for the publishing root site
  3. Disable the ViewFormPagesLockDown feature on your MOSS 2007 server*
    *It is CRITICAL to disable the ViewFormPagesLockDown feature BEFORE creating the blog site.
  4. For your POSTS list, first disjoin the permissions from the root site and then edit the anonymous access settings to let anonymous users view blog posts
  5. If you want comments by unauthenticated users, disjoin the permissions from the rooth site and then enable view and add permissions for anonymous access users
  6. Repeat the permissions process for any other relevant lists that you want

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