Carl Stalhood

Saturday, 19 March 2016

How to ADD local certificate for Storefront store to use HTTPS

Prerequisite you should have ADCS available in your environment –
  1. Go to IIS Manager –
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  1. Click on server certificate –
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  1. Click on Create Domain certificate
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  1. You will see the below form appear on your screen and punching the below details.What matter the most is the name of the company where the server will be created –
Company name – FQDN for ex – (DC name).domain.com
Org – name of the org
OU – Organizational unit
City/locality – Name of the location
State – Name of the state
Country – Name of the country
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  1. Click next and you will asked for the certificate authority which is going to be your domain controller and any friendly name of tagging purpose –                                                                                                                                                                                                                      s5
  2. Click finish and you have the certificate available and now adjust the bindings for the storefront website. By going to default web site and in the right pane chose bindings > click add > select type as https choose the port as 443 > select the certificate you created from the drop down of SSL certificate.
  3. Post that you can go back to storefront and change the base url by going to Server group > change base url and it will change all the subsequent base url required updating.

How to disable the URL prompt for the users using Citrix Desktop?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Citrix\PNAgent : “SuppressURLPromptAtLogin“=DWORD:00000001

Crack License administration console password cracking version – 11.11.1 build 13012

when we clicked on the administration it was asking for user name and password where it by default the user by which it Citrix license server was installed but the password was not working.
In these case you can reset the password by browsing to the location which is – C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Licensing\LS\conf
locate the file server.xml open in the notepad and look for the password and it will show you something like below –
password=”(ENC-01)UaFz17cJ2oNQ+LkskjkzUyVV5ZcmaoJCDCiuiusbB6zk2P0uR”
you can change the password by changing the data under the “”. below is the example –
password=”Password01″
and save the server.xml and use the default username and enter the password you changed and bingo you are in the administration section of license admin console.

If license server is down, how does licensing work in the grace period?

Ans : Almost every who is supporting Citrix XenApp know that the moment license server goes down Citrix XenApp server goes to grace period for 30 days giving administrator the opportunity to recover the License server or build a new one.
But when asked about how exactly XenApp server holds the license information the question mark appears on the admin face luckily i was one of them but i did some digging on google and Citrix XenApp server registries and found the answer.

How licensing work in the grace period?
Initially i thought it is LHC which hold that information but every XenApp server cache License information in .ini file and the exact name of the file is MPS-WSXICA_MPS-WSXICA.ini which is saved at – C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\system32\cache
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MPS-WSXICA_MPS-WSXICA.ini can be opened in notepad and if you have ever opened the LIC file in notepad you will be able to find the similarity. It looks like below –
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This is finally gets updated automatically whenever you add any new license or make any changes to the License information. Please correct if am wrong if you server is down IMA pick the cache information with the help of below key
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