Blank Page in OWA 2010

If you’re anything like me there will be times when you’re so busy (or maybe a little lazy) you might just count hope on the fact that a Microsoft install will check installation prerequisites and warn / install them for you.

Unfortunately Exchange 2010 isn’t one of those installations.  Using a default install of Windows Server 2008 R2.  I performed an installation of Exchange Server 2010.  Using only the pre-installation checker during the installation process I installed only what was requested to get Exchange 2010 to install.  For the most part this was fine.  It gave me a functioning Exchange 2010 test server.

It wasn’t till I tested OWA that I found it didn’t install or notify me of all the prerequisite web components.

When I browsed to OWA I was redirected to https://exchangeserver.local/owa/auth/logon.aspx?url=https://exchangeserver.local/owa&reason=0

Fortunately the fix was rather simple.  It required two PowerShell commands and no Exchange service restarts.

Import-Module ServerManager

Add-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

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