Who is this article for?

IT Personnel managing the Please Review system.

IT access is required.

Please Review includes a flight mode option that allows access to data while offline.

For security, this should be used with a fixed machine key.

This article outlines the steps to enable the fixed machine key for flight mode and is split into the following sections:

1. Configuring a Fixed Machine Key
2. Further Reading

1. Configuring a Fixed Machine Key

1. On the Please Review server launch Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Expand Local Computer/Sites/Default Web Site.
3. Click on the Please Review application.
4. In the ASP.NET section, double click the Machine Key button.

5. Uncheck the ‘Automatically generate at runtime’ and ‘Generate a unique key for each application’ in both the ‘Validation key’ and ‘Decryption key’ sections.
6. Click the ‘Generate Keys’ link in the right-hand pane.
7. Click ‘Apply’ in the right-hand pane.

Note: To verify the change has been applied, open the Web.Config file in the directory C:\Program Files\PleaseReview\TaraWeb and verify there is a new <machineKey> entry between the </system.web> and </pages>tags.

2. Further Reading

• Performing a Please Review 8.0.0 Installation
• Performing a Please Review 8.0.0 Upgrade