If you’ve ever been frustrated by the length of time it takes to get past the initial pre-logon screen on Citrix Web Interface or Storefront then a simple change can rectify this issue.
Quite often the issue is caused by the web interface or storefront server making a ssl crl certificate check to Verisign and if the web interface does not have access to the internet this process will time out. Now whilst its important to allow web based apps and sites to perform crl checking for financial sites or sites that hold personal data its not really necessary. In order to disable crl checking you need to edit a single file and add a single line of code.
Firstly you need to check which version of ASP your Storefront or Web Interface is using. You ย can do this by opening the IIS management console and clicking on the application pools. You then right click on the relevent application and basic settings.
Once you know the version delve into c:\windows\microsoft .net/framework\%versionnumber%.
Then edit the aspnet.config and add the line <generatePublisherEvidence enabled=”false” /> so that the config file looks like this.
Also change the same asp net.config in the c:\windows\microsoft .net\framework64\%versionnumber%
Once saved the changes to the file open up the command prompt and type iisreset to restart IIS and allow the changes to take effect.
The difference this small change makes can be seen easily in this short video that I have created.
Author : Dale Scriven
I tried this and got error 503 service unavailable on a Storefront 2.0 install.
The quick demo I created was on storefront 2.0 so it does work. The code is case sensitive so might be worth checking that, also did you perform an IISreset afterwards?
Regards
Dale
in your text file (Screenshot) the ” is missing at the end of false
and the error 503 happend if you copy past the text in to the config file, the ” are differtent if you do this…so type the ” manualy and all is working fine…;-)
Ah well spotted I’ll change that out as soon as possible!
Excellent! worked for me ๐
Works on StoreFront 2.1 TY. ๐
This doesn’t work on 2.6
Thanks for the information, I’ve not tried it on 2.6 yet. I’ll test it out and post the new fix here.
This worked for me on a 2.6 enviroment