Adding User Credential to the TridionRsaKeyContainer

In order to make modification to the Tridion MMC Snap-in such as the database settings, your user account will need access to the TridionRsaKeyContainer.

Ever get this annoying "Access is denied" error when you tried to add yourself to the TridionRsaKeyContainer? I have plenty of times.....

I always thought that the original Administrator account who did the Tridion installation can grant this access. But what if the original user account that was used was deleted or the employee left the company? Then you're screwed........ ok, that's not true!

Here's a way around it with the use of Microsoft PSTools

1) Download PSTools (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx)

2) Unzip the tools to somewhere on the server

3) Drop out to a command prompt and go to where PSTools is unzipped

4) Run:    psexec -i -s cmd.exe (This should open another command prompt window)

5) In the new command prompt windows, navigate to where aspnet_regiis is (should be in c:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework64\v4.0.30319 

6) Run:   aspnet_regiis -pa "TridionRsaKeyContainer" "Domain\UserName"

SUCCESS! Access is granted!

Hope this helps if anyone ever run into this issue.

Kudos to Brandon Truong from SDL Support!

"Hello" PowerShell

Playing around with Windows PowerShell today. As usual, the first thing that people learn is the infamous "Hello World" program. So I tried scripting an array of string in PS (plus color!)

PS C:\> 0..15 | % {Write-Host -ForegroundColor $_ "HELLO Robert Jin!!!"}

Here's a breakdown of what's happening:

• 0..15 - This is a range operator with an array of numbers from 0 to 15
• Write-Host - Operator to print text to the screen
• -ForegroundColor - The color of the text
• $_ - The numeric value that is required for the the previous command (ForegroundColor)
• "<String>" - The string of text to display

ForegroundColor also have a few pre-set color schemes. Here's the list:

-ForegroundColor 0 = Black

-ForegroundColor 1 = Dark Blue

-ForegroundColor 2 = Dark Green

-ForegroundColor 3 = Dark Cyan

-ForegroundColor 4 = Dark Red

-ForegroundColor 5 = Dark Magenta

-ForegroundColor 6 = Dark Yellow (Not sure why this is showing as 'White')

-ForegroundColor 7 = Gray

-ForegroundColor 8 = Dark Gray

-ForegroundColor 9 = Blue

-ForegroundColor 10 = Green

-ForegroundColor 11 = Cyan

-ForegroundColor 12 = Red

-ForegroundColor 13 = Magenta

-ForegroundColor 14 = Yellow

-ForegroundColor 15 = White

Well, that's it for now =)

Connecting to Tridion Core Service

Today marks the first day of me learning about the Tridion Core Service! First let's step through how to connect (remotely from the server as a client)

• Open Visual Studio and create a new Windows Console project
• Add Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.dll as a reference in the solution
• Add Systems.ServiceModel and System.Runtime.Serialization as a reference in the solution
• Make sure the project is running .NET Framework 4.0
• Create an app.config file with the content from Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.config and update the netTcp_2011 address with the appropriate server IP

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>

  <system.serviceModel>

    <!-- Default/example WCF settings for Core Service. These settings should be copied into the host application's configuration file. -->

    <bindings>

      <!-- Default Core Service binding settings are provided here. These can be used as a starting point for further customizations. -->

      <basicHttpBinding>

        <binding name="basicHttp" maxReceivedMessageSize="10485760">

          <readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="10485760" maxArrayLength="10485760"/>

          <security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">

            <!-- For LDAP or SSO authentication of transport credentials, use clientCredentialType="Basic" -->

            <transport clientCredentialType="Windows"/>

          </security>

        </binding>

        <binding name="streamDownload_basicHttp" maxReceivedMessageSize="209715200" transferMode="StreamedResponse" messageEncoding="Mtom" sendTimeout="00:10:00">

          <security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">

            <!-- For LDAP or SSO authentication of transport credentials, use clientCredentialType="Basic" -->

            <transport clientCredentialType="Windows"/>

          </security>

        </binding>

        <binding name="streamUpload_basicHttp" maxReceivedMessageSize="209715200" transferMode="StreamedRequest" messageEncoding="Mtom" receiveTimeout="00:10:00">

          <security mode="None"/>

        </binding>

      </basicHttpBinding>

      <wsHttpBinding>

        <binding name="wsHttp" transactionFlow="true" maxReceivedMessageSize="10485760">

          <readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="10485760" maxArrayLength="10485760"/>

          <security mode="Message">

            <message clientCredentialType="Windows"/>

          </security>

        </binding>

      </wsHttpBinding>

      <netTcpBinding>

        <binding name="netTcp" transactionFlow="true" transactionProtocol="WSAtomicTransaction11" maxReceivedMessageSize="10485760">

          <readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="10485760" maxArrayLength="10485760"/>

        </binding>

        <binding name="streamDownload_netTcp" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" transferMode="StreamedResponse" sendTimeout="00:10:00"/>

        <binding name="streamUpload_netTcp" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" transferMode="StreamedRequest" receiveTimeout="00:10:00"/>

      </netTcpBinding>

    </bindings>

    <client>

      <!-- Default Core Service endpoint settings are provided here. The endpoint name should be specified when constructing a proxy service instance.

      The mapping between proxy service types and applicable endpoint names is as follows (see also the contracts specified on each endpoint):

      CoreServiceClient: basicHttp

      SessionAwareCoreServiceClient: wsHttp, netTcp

      StreamDownloadClient: streamDownload_basicHttp, streamDownload_netTcp

      StreamUploadClient: streamUpload_basicHttp, streamUpload_netTcp

      -->

      <endpoint name="basicHttp_2011" address="http://10.9.5.48/webservices/CoreService2011.svc/basicHttp" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="basicHttp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.ICoreService"/>

      <endpoint name="streamDownload_basicHttp_2011" address="http://10.9.5.48/webservices/CoreService2011.svc/streamDownload_basicHttp" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="streamDownload_basicHttp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.IStreamDownload"/>

      <endpoint name="streamUpload_basicHttp_2011" address="http://10.9.5.48/webservices/CoreService2011.svc/streamUpload_basicHttp" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="streamUpload_basicHttp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.IStreamUpload"/>

      <endpoint name="wsHttp_2011" address="http://10.9.5.48/webservices/CoreService2011.svc/wsHttp" binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="wsHttp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.ISessionAwareCoreService">

        <identity>

          <dns value="localhost"/>

        </identity>

      </endpoint>

      <endpoint name="netTcp_2011" address="net.tcp://10.9.5.48:2660/CoreService/2011/netTcp" binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="netTcp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.ISessionAwareCoreService"/>

      <endpoint name="streamDownload_netTcp_2011" address="net.tcp://localhost:2660/CoreService/2011/streamDownload_netTcp" binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="streamDownload_netTcp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.IStreamDownload"/>

      <endpoint name="streamUpload_netTcp_2011" address="net.tcp://localhost:2660/CoreService/2011/streamUpload_netTcp" binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="streamUpload_netTcp" contract="Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.IStreamUpload"/>

    </client>

  </system.serviceModel>

<startup><supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/></startup></configuration>

• Write the following code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client;

namespace CoreService
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Connecting to Core Service
            var client = new SessionAwareCoreServiceClient("netTcp_2011");
            client.ChannelFactory.Credentials.Windows.ClientCredential = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("administrator", "tridion");
            Console.WriteLine("Connected to CoreService with user " + client.GetCurrentUser().Title);
            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}