Pages coming up completely blank
Sharepoint 2007: After a recent hotfix was applied, I lost database connectivity to our sharepoint DB -- I restored it, but now some users (myself included) cannot access our local intranet site. The page just comes up completely blank, however; some users can see it just fine. I cannot find anything on this, anyone have any ideas? Thanks. Edit: After further testing (I enabled Anonymous access via IIS manager) -- I can access the page, but get an error: Access Denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource.
March 30th, 2010 10:49pm

The blank page is a permissions issue that could be Kerberos related - depends on your setup. Check the security and application logs of the web server for clues. The Access Denied as anonymous is proof of my first comment, and you're getting it because you don't actually have access to the content of the page you're going to. Anonymous access not only is turned on at the web app level but also within the site collection itself. Anything that does not inherit permissions will not automatically be viewable, and if you didn't allow anonymous at the site collection level, then you still wouldn't be able to see anything after getting to the page.SharePoint Architect || My Blog
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March 31st, 2010 5:30am

The blank page is a permissions issue that could be Kerberos related - depends on your setup. Check the security and application logs of the web server for clues. The Access Denied as anonymous is proof of my first comment, and you're getting it because you don't actually have access to the content of the page you're going to. Anonymous access not only is turned on at the web app level but also within the site collection itself. Anything that does not inherit permissions will not automatically be viewable, and if you didn't allow anonymous at the site collection level, then you still wouldn't be able to see anything after getting to the page. SharePoint Architect || My Blog I fixed anonymous access on the site itself, I can now see the site (it's not blank/giving me errors) -- but I am unable to login at all, most users are OK, except a few -- not really sure what permission setting I am missing.
March 31st, 2010 4:21pm

Are you using the exact same URL that others are using when browsing to the site? There may be host headers and AAMs that are allowing other users to browse to a different URL than you. If it's just straight permissions, then give yourself site collection administrator rights in Central Admin and try to browse again. Also, try browsing to somewhere other than the main default page, because it may have an issue itself.SharePoint Architect || My Blog
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March 31st, 2010 4:52pm

I am set as a site admin, and site collections admin, with full permission to everything. The URL I am accessing ( http://companyweb2 ) is the same as everyone else as well.
March 31st, 2010 5:35pm

Update: I reset my IE8 settings back to default via http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 -- The page loads yet, but I am not signed in by default, clicking 'Sign In' allows me to be logged in fine, but if I reopen the browser, I am signed back out. Minor nuisance, and not really sure why anything like that would be happening. (Because of this now, Outlook being synchronized with stuff on the site, doesn't have full access to each item, so I am stuck in read only mode which means I am going to have to fix this :( )
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March 31st, 2010 6:05pm

I manually disabled Anonymous access in IIS and it works fine for me again, but other users are experiencing a white blank page again -- It must be a setting in IE8 that's causing it.
March 31st, 2010 7:38pm

Update (again). For some reason, our local proxy was causing this. I checked 'Bypass Proxy for Local Addresses' and sharepoint pages loaded fine.. very odd (since it was set this way all along).
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March 31st, 2010 11:50pm

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