If you are using SIF Version 1.1.0 to generate Self-Signed Certificates and need to export these to other machines as part of a scaled environment, you may find that you are unable to export the Private Keys along with the certificate. In fact, the option to export is grayed out: SIF Version 1.1.0 Created Certificate: …
If you deploy xConnect using the SIF Framework, you will notice a JSON Parameter named “XConnectEnvrionment” with a description of “The configuration environment for this instance” containing a default value of “Development”. “XConnectEnvironment”: { “Type”: “string”, “DefaultValue”: “Development”, “Description”: “The configuration environment for this instance.” }, So, what is the purpose of …
Sitecore has updated the Sitecore 9 SIF to Version 1.2.0. New features include Tasks for allowing “enabling, disabling and deleting configurations by reading an IO xml file (*.ioxml)” and transforming “XML documents by applying XML Document Transformation (xdt) files”. Resolved bugs includes resolution of the “certificate private key path on Windows 8.1/2012” and corrections to input hash …
If you are following the Sitecore 9 Update 1 Installation Guide, you may note that the prerequisites for SIF can lead to failures with SQL Communication if you are installing a scaled Sitecore environment (ex. SQL is installed on one server, while your Sitecore roles are installed on separate servers). You may not experience issues if you …