PowerShell Extensions for Ivanti DSM

Central Licensefile Store

There are several scenarios, where the PowerShell Extensions will be installed on multiple servers or even all managed client-systems. The reasons include but are not limited to executing PSX-based PowerShell scripts for initiating reinstallations decentrally, reset Policy-Instances or others.

In such an environment, it is complex, for example after buying additional licenses (you will receive a new licensefile in this case), to distribute the new license to all systems. Although this can easily be accomplished by a simple NetInstall-package, it has to be done.

In order to address the necessity of distributing the licensefile, a new possibility of centrally storing the licensefile at a convenient network locations has been introduced. The decentral PSX-installations then reference to this central store. All you have to do is specify the path to the licensefile in the registry of the systems on which the PowerShell Extensions are installed. In the Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NWC Services GmbH\PowerShell Extensions a new string-value named LicensePath must be created.

The path to the licensefile must be stored in this value, whereas UNC-paths are also supported. A charming option would be, for example, to store the file in the Extern$-subdirectory of the DSM-share, as the license is then replicated automatically on all DSM-depots and can be accessed by all managed systems. Basically it is sufficient to specify the path to the file - optionally specifying the filename is possible, if - for whatever reasons - the licensefile doesn't have the default name nwcservices.blsadministration.dll.lic. 

It is self-evident, that every system or user executing PSX-based PowerShell scripts, needs at least read-access to this licensefile.