Updating Xpand Portal license

This topic describes how to update the license for your product that is based on Xpand Portal.

  Note

To be able to update the license of Xpand Portal, you must have a license file that was provided to you by the Xpand Portal team.

To update the license of Xpand Portal

  1. On the server where Xpand Portal is hosted, go to the location of the Xpand Portal installation. You can find this location using Internet Information Services (ISS) Manager as follows:
    1. Open Internet Information Services (ISS).
    2. In Internet Information Services (ISS), in the Connections pane, select Sites, right-click the title of your Xpand Portal site, and then select Explore.
  2. Go to the following location: [Xpand Portal location folder]\web\portal\config where [Xpand Portal location folder] is the folder where the Xpand Portal is deployed.
  3. In the config folder, locate and delete the existing license file (it has the .license extension).
  4. Copy the downloaded/provided new license file into the config folder.

  1. Restart the Xpand Portal application, which can be done in two ways:
    1. Using Internet Information Services (ISS) Manager:
      1. Internet Information Services (ISS) Manager, in the Connections pane, select Application Pools.
      2. In the Application Pools pane, select the application pool that corresponds to your Xpand Portal application.
      3. In the Actions pane, select Recycle.
    2. From the Xpand Portal backoffice:
      1. In a web browser, go to https://<portal_domain name>/umbraco#/ where <portal_domain_name> is the domain name of your Xpand Portal.
      2. Sign in to the backoffice using your backoffice user account.
      3. In the backoffice, go Content or Settings, select More in the bottom right corner, and then select the Reload Application action.
      4. In the Portal maintenance pane, select Reload application.