Design / Board Options, Display Sheet
This gives you the white background. I never use it, personally, because PCB view isn't made to work with a white background, and it doesn't do anything otherwise.
Place / Drill Table
Place / Layer Stack Table
If you are using through holes, the default Drill Table settings will be fine. If using blind holes, it's probably a good idea to place several tables, and change their settings to each layer pair, or include the column that says which layer pairs a hole belongs to.
To add the mechanical-sheet stuff (the row/column margins, rev block, title block), you need primitives, probably copied from another template project. I don't use these either personally, but I have customers who do.
Tim