Sitecore getting started to advanced

With Sitecore 9 we need to add the following things in web.config file in order to connect Sitecore site with rocks. Use this setting only in DEV environment. Sitecore Rocks to connect Sitecore:  Add the following in Web.config file  <location path="sitecore/shell/WebService">     <system.web>       <authorization>         <allow users="?,*" />       </authorization>     </system.web>   </location>

Create the Self-signed certificate for XConnect $thumbprint = (New-SelfSignedCertificate ` -Subject "CN=xConnectsc9DemoCert" ` -Type SSLServerAuthentication ` -FriendlyName "xConnectsc9DemoCertificate").Thumbprint #export certificate with password $certificateFilePath = "C:\certificates\$thumbprint.pfx" Export-PfxCertificate ` -cert cert:\LocalMachine\MY\$thumbprint ` -FilePath "$certificateFilePath" ` -Password (Read-Host -Prompt "Enter password that would protect the certificate" -AsSecureString) #convert it to base64 string (blob) $fileContentBytes = get-content $certificateFilePath -Encoding Byte [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($fileContentBytes) | Out-File "C:\certificates\$thumbprint.txt" Write-Host "Your secure certificate blob is located at C:\certificates\$thumbprint.txt" Xconnect Certificate Issue: (Sitecore.XConnect.XdbCollectionUnavailableException) Provide IIS Apppool\Sitename, NE