Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Password Encryption
To encrypt a password:
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Ensure that your Configuration Manager installation directory contains a security directory that includes the following file:
encrypt_security
This file is created during the installation process. However if this file does not exist, then run the following in the <Configuration_Manager_installation_directory>\bin directory:
generate-keys.bat
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Run the following command:
<Configuration_Manager_installation_directory>\bin\encrypt-password <options>
The command line <options> can be:
Option Description -p <password>
--password <password>
Encrypt a single plain-text password. -d <folder>
--dir <folder>
Use the encryption keys located at the specified path. If this option is not specified, the default key location is <cm-installation>\security, which is where the Generate Keys utility creates the private and public key. -h
--help
Print this message. For example, to encrypt a single password, run the following:
EncryptPassword.bat -p <password to encrypt>
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Copy and paste the generated encrypted password ({ENCRYPTED} <encrypted password>) into the appropriate Configuration Manager configuration file.
