In SharePoint Subscription Edition, can we still enable anonymous access?
Looking at this Manage anonymous access for a web application in SharePoint Server, it looks like we can.
If anonymous access is enabled, then how is user CAL enabled if at all. My understanding is that a user CAL is required to access anything hosted on SP SE, be it a public facing website.
No CAL is required for anonymous user.
Check this article from Microsoft:
SharePoint Server: Licensing Resources and Documents
Internal users make content, information, and applications publicly available to users via the Internet (for example, on a public-facing company website). A mix of internal and external users anonymously access the site, including employees. No SharePoint CALs are required. External user access is permitted under the server license, and SharePoint CAL requirements for internal users are waived for access to content, information, and applications made publicly available via the Internet.
Server: One SharePoint Server license per running instance of the software.
Internal users: CALs aren’t required
External users: CALs aren’t required
