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There's quite a bit of planning that you can do to configure and enable anonymous access In SharePoint 2007.  When you enable anonymous access, users will be able to access your ...

Some of the best posts on the net regarding Sharepoint 2007 and Authentication.  This is a post that has been around for one year and I'm sure there are newer more complete guides.  What would you recommend? NTLM Authentication with SharePoint Most SharePoint environments today are using NTLM (the default) ...

This Management Pack quickly brings any failures or configuration problems to your attention, which increases the availability and performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This Management Pack also provides the knowledge and expertise you need to leverage Operations Manager 2007 and get an immediate return on your investment. This Management Pack alerts you about the following critical conditions:  Shared Services Provider (SSP) provisioning failed Site Directory scan job failed Enabling features failed on some sites Administration site for the SSP is missing Enabling features on existing sites failed The Office SharePoint Server Search service is not running The Microsoft Single Sign-On service is not running

Willie Rust has a great two part series on using a SharePoint list as an Authentication provider.  If you have a public facing site than consider this as an amazing alternative to using NTLM.  Even if you dont have one, this is great experience for those who want to learn more SharePoint 2007 authentication methods. This walkthrough is great however breaking it down into steps would have been great. After reading both parts, you will have a SharePoint list allowing you to manage your user profiles with web services and CAML queries taking care of the authentication enquires and last but not least, setting up user roles. Here are the required links:

One of the most commonly asked questions I get is 'how do I get anonymous access to work'. Usually, a person has enabled anonymous access in Central Administration, but not in the site collection. Here, I will try to reduce the process to the bare minimum ...

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: Setting Up ASP.NET 2.0 Forms Authentication User & Role Data Store Create the ASP.NET 2.0 Database Configure Membership & Role Providers Create A User Creating Two Web Applications, One For Each Authentication Mechanism Creating the http://extranet IIS Web site

Here is a quick links for SharePoint documents that were just newly published content for Office SharePoint Server 2007. Deploy using DBA-created databases (Office SharePoint Server) In many IT environments, database creation and management are handled by the database administrator (DBA). In your organization, security policies and other policies might ...