These days I do two things: travelling and writing for the upcoming book. I am busy now with the chapter on MOSS 2007 publishing portals (internet-facing sites) focusing on how to brand, customize and extend these types of sites.One of the topics is the configuration of these sites to allow anonymous access - a requirement for internet sites.Bill Simser has a good walkthrough on how to configure your site for it. It basically explains the steps to take at the level of IIS (either directly or via the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration) and at the level of your site itself. I am recommending for the beta 2 (TR) to do all the configuration via the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration and not starting with IIS itself since it seems there is a synchronization problem between the two. Turning on anonymous access in IIS does not result in the checkbox to be activated in the Authentication Provider page in SCA. Another thing I noticed is that when you deny anonymous access for one of the subsites of your site collection, the navigation controls don't apply the security trimming. This means that you will see as a visitor also the sites in the navigation you don't have access to. I hope this is will be solved with RTM because security trimming is such a great thing, so why not here :). Or am I missing something here?
Btw.. I forgot to say thank you to everybody in Moscow participating in the sales and technical gig. It was again excellent! Tx Yana, Irena and Denis for the perfect organization. Hopefully see you all back in December.