Surface Area Configuration for Features (Anonymous Connections) - Analysis Services
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Anonymous connections allow unauthenticated users to establish connections with Analysis Services. Unless your applications require unauthenticated users to connect to the instance, disable anonymous connections.
By default, Analysis Services disallows unauthenticated users from establishing a connection to the instance. Enabling anonymous connections to the instance is strongly discouraged, but it can be enabled by using SQL Server Management Studio to change the value of the RequireClientAuthentication server configuration property to 0 or by using this dialog.
Options
Enable anonymous connections
If selected, unauthenticated users can connect to Analysis Services.For more information about securing connections to an Analysis Services instance, see Securing Client Communication with an Analysis Services Instance in SQL Server Books Online.
See Also
Concepts
Surface Area Configuration for Features
Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections