Is it possible to enable anonymous for existing Communication Site?

Question

Hi there,

if we want to build up internet company portal by Communication Site Template, how to enable the anonymous access permission??

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Will

SharePoint has external sharing settings at both the organization level and the site level (previously called the "site collection" level). To allow external sharing on any site, you must allow it at the organization level. You can then restrict external sharing for other sites. If a site's external sharing option and the organization-level sharing option don't match, the most restrictive value will always be applied.

All in all, you need to allow anonymous access in the entire tenant first, and then enable this feature in the corresponding site.

By default when you create a Communication site, external sharing has been disabled. As Communication sites are not listed in the site collection admin UI you need to turn to code or PowerShell to fix this.

More information:

https://eschrader.com/2018/02/28/sharepoint-online-communication-site-how-to-share-with-external-users/

https://www.techmikael.com/2017/08/enable-external-sharing-on.html

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In my test, it works fine.

Update:
Anonymous access is supported in the SharePoint on-premise.

For security reasons, anonymous access is not supported in SharePoint online. The workaround is to use share and invite external users to visit the site.

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