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Andrew_Joyce_14
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Apr 09, 2014

F5 and Anonymous Public facing SharePoint sites

In a SharePoint 2013 multi-tenant environment where authentication is the norm, is it possible within F5 to also allow anonymous SharePoint access sites? I know we can do it in SharePoint but can F5 differentiate authenticated from anonymous access sites? One suggestion I have had is to create a new virtual server from F5 and turn off APM, then add anonymous hosts to that. Would this work?

 

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  • drugovm_149811's avatar
    drugovm_149811
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    Apr 09, 2014

    Did you saw this irule? https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.ACCESS__disable.ashx

    If you have sharepoint sites running on the same hosts but they have different paths:

    Such as: sharepoint.example.com/anonymous1; sharepoint.example.com/anonymous2; sharepoint.example.com/anonymous3

    when HTTP_REQUEST {

        Check the requested HTTP path
   switch -glob [string tolower [HTTP::path]] {
          "/anonymous1*" -
          "/anonymous2*" -
          "/anonymous3*" {
                  Disable APM for these paths
                 ACCESS::disable
          }
          default {
                  Enable APM for all other paths
                 ACCESS::enable
          }
   }

    }