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 – […]
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, […]
Connections 101 – what a fantastic idea
I think a community high five is in order for Mr Paul Mooney and Ms Gabriella Davis. They have taken on the mamoth task of creating a Connections 101 site that will assit those new to Connections and WebSphere to get you up and running with advice, information and assistance. Something like this can not […]
Connections fix pack 3.0.1.1 now available
At last Connections fix pack 3.0.1.1 is now available to download and fixes lots of little issues, including the firefox feature with files and wikis and the issue chrome has with files. I installed it on my test system yesterday and it went very smoothly. The fix pack can be downloaded from Fix Central. Fix […]
Joined Up Thinking In Identity & Access Management: WebSEAL and WebSphere Portal – An Integration Pattern
Fantstic new post from the Identity Management Guru (ans all round lovely bloke) – Mr Stephen Swann Joined Up Thinking In Identity & Access Management: WebSEAL and WebSphere Portal – An Integration Pattern Very well put together post on Securing Portal with Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), with some sensible suggestions for approach and useful gotchas. […]
Portal 6.1.5 do i love it or hate it ..??
Answers on a post card … first impressions of the installer was Wow that was neat, it installed the vanilla *everything* install fairly quickly and was up and running on it’s cloudscape db and basic security very quckly, looks funky, is fast and the new connections style theming is very sexy … Now I am […]
Connections 2.5 – WebSphere Tips
WebSphere Tip : 1 When clustering Connections you may encounter issues when the wizard attempts to federate the node into your deployment manager. This is a known WAS issue as the JVM suffers out of memory errors (is you delve deep in the add node log file / dmgr log you will find them). There […]
Connections 2.5 Clustering – how to avoid some pain
All was going exactly to plan when I installed my primary node – federated correctly worked as expected and I even managed to change it fairly easily to point to a different DB and shared content store I was a very happy bunny UNTIL I decided to add node2 – then it all went “pear […]
Wow .. This looks awsome
today thanks to the lovely Mr Stuart McIntyre for the tip off .. but Mr David Hay IBM consultant and general technical guru and geek has posted a guide to Portal 6.1.5 (with screen shots) .. WOW IBM, you have made the portal interface look as cool as the connection one does 🙂 I am […]