{"id":1081,"date":"2012-05-08T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2012-10-15T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:33:37","slug":"exchange-2010-owa-blank-page-http-500-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2012\/05\/exchange-2010-owa-blank-page-http-500-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Exchange 2010 | OWA Blank page (\u201cHTTP 500\u201d error)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scenario:<\/strong> OWA web address shows login prompt and the user is able to logon, but a blank page or &#8220;HTTP 500&#8221; error displays once logged in. The page may also be blank depending on browser settings and if &#8220;show friendly URLs&#8221; is selected.<\/p>\n<p>Even after a \u201cIISReset \/NoForce\u201d or Server reboot, the problem is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not fixed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong> Looks like this problem is related to the &#8220;Microsoft Exchange Forms-Based Authentifcation Service&#8221; not being started or failed to start. This service can just be started from &#8220;services.msc&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><code><\/p>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">net start MSExchangeFBA<\/pre>\n<p><\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> a number of posts state this problem is related to not having the&#8221;RPC over HTTP Proxy&#8221; role installed. However in my case the server had been working successfully.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a new migration or build of Exchange 2010 then you may need to ensure that all required features are installed on the exchange server:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">\r\nOpen \"Powershell\" run as administrator<br \/>\r\nImport-Module ServerManager<br \/>\r\nAdd-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart<br \/>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenario: OWA web address shows login prompt and the user is able to logon, but a blank page or &#8220;HTTP 500&#8221; error displays once logged in. The page may also be blank depending on browser settings and if &#8220;show friendly URLs&#8221; is selected. Even after a \u201cIISReset \/NoForce\u201d or Server reboot, the problem is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powershell","category-windows-server-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}