Anonymous Form Submission with SharePoint 2010

I had a colleague ask me for help regarding anonymous form submission to a SharePoint 2010 list.  At first this had me scratching my head, all the permissions were set correctly, however after sleeping on the problem I realised I had seen exactly this before, and if I’d seen it before maybe I had blogged about it?

Well it turns out I had, however it had not come across from the migration from the old blogging platform I had previously used to WordPress when I came over here about 18 months ago.  A quick republish and https://mrhodes.net/2008/08/08/anonymous-access-to-lists-in-moss/ was online.

Fortunately the bulk of this article is still valid, however as it is SharePoint 2010 it makes more sense to do this operation in PowerShell :

In case the text isn’t clear :

Get-SPFeature -Site http://www.sitename.com | ?{$_.DisplayName -like “*lock*”}
Disable-SPFeature -id <<Insert ID from Previous Command>> -Url http://www.sitename.com

The only “Gotcha” with this is that much like in MOSS 2007 you must toggle your Anonymous access settings before this will take effect.  To do this, I quickly set the anonymous access on the site collection to “Nothing” then immediately set it to “Entire Web Site”