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Setting up IIS for anonymous access

For single sign-on or LDAP integration to work properly, you must configure IIS to have anonymous access enabled for the SDL Tridion Web site, SDL Tridion virtual folders and SDL Tridion Web applications.

Procedure

  1. Access your Content Manager server.
  2. Click the Server Manager button in the Windows taskbar and in the Server Manager window that opens, select Roles > Web Server (IIS) > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager (Windows 2008) or Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager(Windows 2012).
  3. From the IIS tree, open the node representing this machine, and select Sites, then select the SDL Tridion Web site.
  4. Double-click the Authentication icon on the right and change the settings that appear as follows:
  5. Double-click the Authentication icon on the right and change the settings that appear as follows:
    • Select the Anonymous Authentication row and click Enable in the Actions area on the right.
    • Select each of the other rows in turn and for each row, click Disable in the Actions area on the right. (If necessary, you could choose to keep Digest Authentication and Forms Authentication enabled.)
  6. Apply this same authentication configuration to every virtual folder or Web application.
  7. Close Server Manager.