Weird issue with video freezing in Teams – RESOLVED
The past couple of weeks I have been seeing an odd issue where in Microsoft Teams my video became frozen. Annoying to say the least in this time where everyone is working from home and having video meetings. Up until a couple of weeks ago it was all working perfectly, no hardware or software changes […]
Connections 6 migration observations
I am sure that lots of you have installed or started migrations to Connections 6 by now .. but I have found a couple of gotchas across the installs and updates that I have managed so far. I am listing them here for sanities sake as I know when we google an error – this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Connections 4.x search – well that was a weird problem
If you have migrated or moved an IBM Connections instance from 3.0.1 > 4.x (either 4.0 or 4.5) or moved data between 4.x servers you may have noticed a weird issue with searching, especially around communities. The reason I have been a bit quiet on the blog of late is because I am working on […]
Returning user login issues – fun with the connections databases
I recently had an issue with a user having issues logging in to certain applications. The user could log in to some apps but recieved an error on others – for instance profiles, activities, communities and forums the user was fine. Each applications database holds information regarding the user login and their external / directory […]
A fix for the Chrome header issue
Stuart blogged back in January about a known issue with downloading files from the files application using Chrome. IBM do not officially support Chrome with Connections 3.0.1 – but our good friend & IBM Champion Sjaak Ursinus has devised a work around. Header edit Content-Disposition ^(.*)creation-date=(.*);\smodification-date=(.*);$ “$1creation-date=\”$2\”; modification-date=\”$3\”;” ensure the mod_header module is uncommented httpd.conf […]
Issue with custom themes and communities
I have had a PMR open for some time relating to a bit of a known issue with Custom themes and Connections communties There was an issue where you would create a custom theme In my case I also customised the coloured community themes also When clicking on forums, blogs etc the theme was stripped […]