Question

I have a site through which the majority of users will be anonymous but a few will be active directory users.

I’d like to;

• Enable full anonymous access for everyone without logins.
• Detect the AD users.
• Check if the AD users are members of a specific admin group.

I’m using .Net 4.0, C# and IIS 7.5 running on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you enable anonymous access windows authentication will not happen. You can implement a custom authentication provider that calls AD and sets the anonymous user when authentication fails.