Blank Screen on SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Page
Sorry for the delay in posting. Between projects and holiday time things have been a bit crazed... but now it's time for another year of blogging!
Recently, I set up a SharePoint 2010 Foundation environment on a Windows 7 machine. Yes, it is possible! I found this set of instructions (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx) helpful and extended it to use this post (http://develoq.net/blog/?p=173) because I wanted to use a local instance of SQL Server. All was good with the installation but I found that when I went to Central Administration for the first time I was met with a blank page. Some quick investigation proved it to be an IIS issue. Here's what I did:
- Go to Control Panel
- Change the 'View by' to Large Icons
- Select Administration Tools
- Select Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
- Select Central Administration in the list of Sites
- Double click Authentication in the main pane
- Ensure that Anonymous Access is 'Disabled' and Basic Authentication is 'Enabled'