In previous posts, I mentioned that I would show you how to extend Solution 1 and 2 by somehow merging them into an existing authentication provider and finally packaging everything into a feature called “Guest Account Enabler”. An obvious benefit to creating a feature is that it makes it optional to have the guest account functionality in your site. In this post and for the sake of brevity, I assume that Internet Zone (Protected by FBA) is the zone that you want to have the Guest Account enabled , but nothing prevents you from changing the code below to extend it to other zones using the same authentication provider as Internet zone.<\/p>\n
If you haven’t already read Part1 and Part 2 , here are the links:<\/p>\n
The first step is to create our ‘Global.asax’ file. While our ‘Global.asax’ is very similar to the ones shown in Solution 1 and 2 in part 2, it has one important difference. It constructs the ‘Guest’ account only if the relevant feature is activated. Here is the code for new ‘Global.asax’.<\/p>\n
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\n<%@ Assembly Name=\"Microsoft.SharePoint\"%>
\n<%@ Application Language=\"C#\" Inherits=\"Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPHttpApplication\" %>
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