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488 Part VI: Administration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
As you read through this chapter and learn about all the management responsibilities
you will have as an administrator of a portal site, you will undoubtedly
want to delegate some of those responsibilities. You can achieve this delegation of
responsibilities by creating custom site groups that have one or more of the five
additional rights that pertain to portal area management permissions:
■ Manage Alerts. Privilege to change alert settings for the portal site and
manage alerts for users
■ Manage User Profiles. Right to add, change, or delete user profile information
and properties
■ Manage Audiences. Permission to add, change, or delete audiences
■ Manage Portal Site.
settings
Right to specify portal site properties and manage site
■ Manage Search.
in the portal site
Privilege to add, change, or delete index and search settings
The Change anonymous access setting link is required if the portal site
administrator wants to enable anonymous access for the portal site. The Anonymous
Access setting is set to Nothing by default, meaning that even if the virtual server
hosting the portal site allows anonymous HTTP requests, the portal site will not
honor the request. The requesting user would experience this kind of scenario by
being prompted to log on to the portal site.
Tip Remember to turn on anonymous access both at the IIS virtual server
as well as on the portal site’s Anonymous Access Settings page if you want
users to access the portal site anonymously, such as in a public Internet
portal scenario. You’ll also need to give the Anonymous user account
Reader (or higher) permissions in the portal site. Also, note that anonymous,
basic, and NTLM/integrated authentication on the virtual server with
SPS is not supported by Microsoft.