Grant Anonymous Access to Lists/Libraries at Office 365

Question

Is there some way I could grant anonymous access on a public sharepoint site?

I know that most of you would say that I just had to set this website to online (he is still set as offline), but my question is if I can enable anonymous access even though it is offline.

I saw a few solutions on the web but none of them worked.

1. http://anonymous365.codeplex.com/
2. http://www.xenoxgaravito.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=8

So here is my problem...

I have a custom list on Office 365 and I wanted anonymous users to have access to this list without require them to log in. But if I try to access this list to include or view items through public site address, Office 365 requires me to provide an user and password. I tried to make the same thing with site pages but with no success too.

So I am guessing that is really impossible to accomplish with Office 365 I did that easily when I was working with On Premise.

Answer 1

You can grant anonymous access to anyone with a guest link for a specific document. Documentation here.

As for folders and entire lists it is not possible in SharePoint Online:

1. Link 1
2. Link 2

Nor for the site collections:

• SharePoint Online office 365, Can we have multiple site collections with anonymous access enabled

The only OOTB way is to know these people's email addresses and they need to have Live IDs. Then you could share the list by emailing them.

Answer 2

The Anonymous Access Permisionnator webpart that I made still works with O365, but you need to make sure to increase your resource quota to a non-zero number.

This doesn't seem to be possible with a non-enterprise tenant, but if you have one, give it a try. I wrote about it here.