Enable SharePoint 2010 in Windows 7 Home Premium
After I’ve installed SharePoint 2010 in my laptop, I see only blank page when I access Central Administration Page. Initially I was not sure what went wrong as I’ve done the same installation process, my last post, many times before.
When I go through some blogs, they say Windows Authentication is must to run SharePoint 2010. OMG! I’m aware that Windows 7 Home Premium will not have Windows Authentication.
So after some trail and error in authentication side, I made it work!!! You need to enable Basic and disable Anonymous.
The following changes should be done in IIS.
| Sites | Authentication | |
| Anonymous | Basic | |
| SharePoint – 80 | Disabled | Enabled |
| SharePoint Central Administration v4 | Disabled | Enabled |
For what it’s worth, I’ve found a way to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows 7 Home Premium (and get Windows Authentication to work – no need to enable Basic Auth!)
You can find the steps I followed on my blog at http://www.rl-soft.com/en/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=21
Hope this helps a few folks!
Raphael.
Raphael Londner
October 25, 2011 at 1:57 am