In General by enabling the anonymous access in SharePoint
site, anonymous users will have read-only access to the site. But when we enable anonymous
access to SharePoint publishing site, we can have issues with anonymous users in SharePoint site due to ViewFormPagesLockDown feature. This feature will
block users to view list view pages. Users can able to access all other web pages. Generally we can face this issue whenever users wanted to comment a
blog post as anonymous in SharePoint blog site located in SharePoint publishing
site collection.
We can check the ViewFormPagesLockDown feature is active or
not by using following Power Shell command.
get-spfeature –site SiteURL
Here SiteURL is URL of the Site to check ViewFormPagesLockDown
feature is active. By entering this command we can the list of features that
are active in SharePoint site.
By disabling ViewFormPagesLockDown feature we can set
anonymous users to access list view pages. to disable that we have to run
following PowerShell commands
$lockdownFeature =
get-spfeature viewformpageslockdown
disable-spfeature $lockdownFeature SiteURL
here SiteURL is URL
of the site to disable ViewFormPagesLockDown feature. By disabling this feature
anonymous users can access list view pages as usually.
