A Blank, White Web Page Is Displayed in IE

Make sure that LOOPBACK CHECK is disabled, To disable the loopback check. follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
3. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.

Note: This also helps in fixing calling custom web services in InfoPath form which returns with null/no data

Web Part Page Maintenance

All I know was use my book marked Manage Web Part Page URL from my IE favorites to bring up maintenance page to fix the web part.

http://<site>/_layouts/spcontnt.aspx?&url=default.aspx

by change the site and url parameter.

But lately found out that if you add the ?contents=1 to your page at the end, system will build the manage webpart maintenance page!! How cool is that?

SharePoint 2010 Installation on Windows 7

Fallow this great link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx
But you need to skip few things:
1. Step 2: Install the Prerequisites for SharePoint 2010: No need to extract etc. once you have your .ISO
Add the following line inside the tag under files\Setup\config.xml


2. Step 3: Install SharePoint 2010: Skip Install SQL Server 2008 KB 970315 x64 if you already have SQL Server 2008. (this will install SQL Express DB Instance "SHAREPOINT")

Note:
1. While Installing SQL Server 2008, Create SQL Instance as "SHAREPOINT"
2. Install right through .ISO file , no need to download single compressed executable file named SharePointFoundation.exe for SharePoint Foundation 2010 and setup.exe for SharePoint Server 2010.
3. Try to avoid installing 64bit office , if you have 64bit Win7, go with 32bit office much stable.