Is Verse on prem the end of Connections Mail?
A technote has come to light – marking the end of life for Connections Mail https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993196 The content states November 2016 is the end of support for the following versions of ICM V 1.0 (for Connections 4.0), and version 1.3 (for Connections 4.5). End of support for ICM 1.6 (for connections 5.0) will be one […]
SUTOL Presentations
I was lucky enough to be selected to speak at the 8th SUTOL conference which was held in the beautiful city of Prague. A round up blog post is coming. In the meen time please find below the slides from the presentations given with Wannes Rams & Roberto Boccadoro Sutol – A Hitchhiker’s Guide […]
IBM Connections 5.5 and Docs 2.0 announced
At last what we have been waiting for the latest versions of IBM Connections and IBM Docs are available this Friday the 18th of December. There are over 100 new features included nested folders, there is a new cleaner look continuing the trend that we have seen over the last two releases. […]
FEB / Connections Surveys – custom LDAP attributes
Thanks to Christopher Dawes in the IBM Forms support team a long running issue I have seen with FEB (Forms Experience Builder) / Connections surveys is now resolved!! Once of my long standing very awesome customers was seeing a problem with Connections surveys. They do not use a standard LDAP attribute for their displayname – […]
External users in connections, multiple LDAPs when using domino root
Originally posted over on the Cube Soft Blog As mentioned in our presentation at EngageUG – We came across a problem when adding multiple LDAP repositories in WebSphere. The scenario was a Domino customer – who use the root domino domain – had a requirement for a second LDAP repository in connections to manage external […]
Do you monitor your Connections environment?
After being to a few user groups lately and seeing all the great monitoring tools for Domino I am interested in what people use to monitor connections. The WebSphere piece of connections can put a lot of people off and I am wondering if something was available would you use it? If you do monitor, […]
Fun and games with Commuity wigets
Last night we managed to close a PMR that had been open for a few weeks on a strange issue with Community Widgets. After remapping the connections admin user everything worked exactly as expected except for 2 tiny issues – Adding the blogs and surveys widgets inside a community thew a nasty error. Thanks […]
Help shape connections search
If you are interested in helping IBM shape the search application inside Connections there is a survey that you can participate in. This is a short survey to better understand attitudes and behaviours around search and how users – well – use it 🙂 You can find the search survey here Fill it in and […]
Odd issue with Connections Mail
I have been looking to implement Connections mail for a while for one of my customers, after finally sorting out some SSO issues we had been seeing I was ready to deploy into their DEV/TEST environment. No problem I thought – Connections mail is a very simple install a couple of config files and a […]
Speaking at Connect 2014 what an honor
It is an honor and a privilege to have been chosen with my friend and community peer Christoph Stoettner to speak at this years Connect / Lotusphere conference. This will be the 4th Connect / Lotusphere I have attended but the first I have spoken a full session at – in previous years I have helped […]