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I keep this blog to write down stuff I ran into along the way.Default NextGen theme is not displayed after performing a IBM Connections 5 Silent Installation
If you perform a silent installation of Connections 5 (which of course you do, if you are a professional :-) ), the default NextGen theme is not displayed.
We only noticed this ourselves after performing several client installations … oops.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21700136
Read more ...Open Office multi monitor display
When using OpenOffice impress for presentations, I noticed it has the annoying behaviour to present on the wrong monitor when you have multiple monitors.
Read more ...How to stop all running WebSphere servers together with the nodeagent (Connections)
In Connections, you can have a lot of individual jvm’s running on a node. To have these all start automatically when the system starts, you have basically 2 options:
- create services for the nodeagent, and every individual server you want to start.
- create a service for the nodeagent, and have the nodeagent start these for you (AUTOSTART).
Get and set application security on Connections 5.0
As a follow-up on this post :
set-the-application-security-on-connections-4.5-applications-updated.htm, I updated the script for Connections 5.0, and added the possibility to create an input file for the current situation.
Setup dnsmasq for proof of concept / development / test environments
I was growing tired of maintaining different /etc/hosts files on all my Linux virtual machines that run a variety of IBM Collaboration Solutions software. Installing a full fledged DNS server like bind is a bit overkill, and there are solutions to distribute configuration files around (like cfengine) , but I ended up looking at dnsmasq http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html. Not new, not revolutionary, but simple and should to the job. And it’s being used by default in Ubuntu …
Read more ...How to show your Organization tree structure as separate Profile types in Connections Profiles (part 2)
Continued from Part 1 : How to show your organization tree structure as separate profile types in Connections Profiles (part 1)
Read more ...How to show your Organization tree structure as separate Profile types in Connections Profiles (part 1)
We sometimes get the question, if it’s possible to include the organization tree into Connections Profiles. As you know, since Connections Profiles is user centric, and it includes a hierachy, but the hierarchy is based on people, there is no real separate hierarchy that depicts the organization tree.
Now this article describes how you could include your organization tree in Connections Profiles, as a profile type.
Installing Cent OS 7 on VMWare Workstation (netinstall)
I tried to install CentOS7 on my VMWare Workstation using the netinstall method (as I always do) , but this failed.
In the configuration for the installation, I did not see any network adapters. I tried to add new adapters - but it just didn’t work - they did not appear.
And without network, no netinstall, obviously.
I tried the same with Redhat 7, to check if it might be something that’s no longer supported (very unlikely), but in RHEL7, it just worked.
In the end, I deleted the virtual machine with CentOS7, and created a new one. This time, I did see the network card and I could do the netinstall.
Read more ...Connections 4.5 with CCM : if you installed CCM but have not configured it , stuff is broken
So you installed CCM, but was planning on configuring it later on. In the mean time, you notice that the search doesn’t index and that the recommendations widget is not working.
Read more ...Pure - TDS image appears broken
After initializing the image, I need to reconfigure the database :
Read more ...IBM Packaging utility
Use this to create a http server usable WAS server repository
Install the IBM Packaging Utility Goto the extracted install directory and start the installation .
Query the repository
Read more ...Regular expression to extract the common name from a DN
During a Sametime migration project, I needed to edit text files to perform the name change. In particular, I needed to extract the Common Name from a Notes Name to use as the new Displayname. In this case, I used Notepad++ : the challenge being to extract the “CN” from a name like this :
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