Step By Step Dual Authentication Providers and Anonymous Access Setup

Andrew Connell, one of the grandmasters of SharePoint has a lenghty post, deserving of a bookmark, that outlines how to configure a Publishing Site (aka: WCM site) in MOSS 2007. The goal is to provide an experience that achieves three requirements:

• Allow content owners/authors to authenticate on the site using their corporate Active Directory credentials in order to manage the Web site’s content.
• Allow unauthenticated, anonymous users, to browse the unrestricted areas of the Web site.
• Require anonymous user to provide a friendly Web-based form to login in order to consume restricted content.

He will demonstrate how all three goals can be achieved using MOSS 2007 and WSS v3 in this article. The article is broken down into nice manageable parts:

1. Setting Up ASP.NET 2.0 Forms Authentication User & Role Data Store

   1. Create the ASP.NET 2.0 Database
   2. Configure Membership & Role Providers
   3. Create A User

2. Creating Two Web Applications, One For Each Authentication Mechanism

   1. Creating the http://extranet IIS Web site
   2. Creating the http://internet IIS Web site

3. Configure The Web Applications To Communicate With The ASP.NET 2.0 Forms Authentication Data Store

   1. Configure http://extranet & http://internet
   2. Configure SharePoint Central Administration

4. Enabling Forms Authentication On One Web Application

5. Enabling Anonymous Access

6. Configuring A Section Of the Site For Authenticated Users Only

Source: HOWTO: Configuring a Office SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site with Dual Authentication Providers and Anonymous Access