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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.

Today I was trying to install SharePoint 2010 in my Windows 7 laptop. You can find the detailed process in MSDN (Setting Up the development environment) for this setup but this is just the steps I’ve done for SharePoint 2010 installation.

Prerequisites to install SharePoint 2010 Server

1. I have downloaded Microsoft SharePoint Server Standard 2010 Trial from MSDN which will give you 180 days. Let’s assume the exe file is SharePointServer.exe
2. Installed WCF Hotfix from this link. (But I’m not really sure that this is mandatory.)
3. Create a folder to have an extracted files from SharePointServer.exe, C:\SharePointFiles.
4. Open the SharePointServer.exe location from command prompt and run the following command. <<drive path>>SharePointServer.exe /extract:C:\SharePointFiles
5. Open the config.xml file from C:\SharePointFiles\Files\Setup\config.xml using NotePad.exe.
6. Include the below line within <Configuration>.                                                              <Setting Id=”AllowWindowsClientInstall” Value=”True”/>
7. Install Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0 from the below path. C:\SharePointFiles\PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\FilterPack\FilterPack.msi
8. Run the below commands in Command Prompt. (see Step –8)
9. Open Turn Windows Features on or off by typing it in Start text box, and make sure that you set all the values as below screenshots. (see Step – 9)
10. Restart the computer.

Step – 8

start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;^
IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;^
IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;^
IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;^
IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-ManagementScriptingTools;^
IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication;^
IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic;^
IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;^
IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;^
WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI;WCF-HTTP-Activation;^
WCF-NonHTTP-Activation

Step – 9

That’s all about configuration and now we are ready to install SharePoint 2010  

Run Setup.exe from C:\SharePointFiles, installation will be done and after that you will be asked to run Configuration Wizard. 

That’s it!!!

In case if you are asked to enter product key like below, you can enter below product key for trial version.

Trial Version Product Key : VK7BD-VBKWR-6FHD9-Q3HM9-6PKMX