I've come across an additional new cause for the error "Home, Monitors and Reports tabs blank issue " with IE-7 and IE8 for a SEPM installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 To resolve the issue, you need to enable additional security options as a minimum requirement. Go to the Tools > Internet Options > Advanced of IE and perform the following steps to resolve the issue The following settings must be enabled when using Internet Explorer 7 / Internet Explorer 8: