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 […]

RDP issues after latest Windows update

There was much shouting this morning when I realised that all of my RDP sessions were failing due to a pesky little error. They worked no problem at all yesterday, then I remembered .. windows updated last night!! Said error was all but useless .. as everyone knows you can’t copy the url it shows […]

Issues with IBM Connections 5 / 5.5 and Chrome 60

There is a known issue with Connections 5 CR4 and all versions of Connections 5.5 when using Chrome version 60. It affects events not being displayed and errors relating to events in the UI. It has also been reported that comments can be affected also. After multiple BP’s and Customers reported this IBM Support have […]

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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

Issues with TAM and Connections – SOLVED

Issues with TAM and Connections For those of you that follow me on Twitter you will all know that I have had huge issues with Connections and TAM integration. I am pleased to report that the issue is now resolved – Instructions below: Created the transparent junctions as per the info center Created the ACL […]

Issues with Oracle with Connections 2.5 RESOLUTION

as posted by me on the Connections Blog earlier today : IBM have now released new trigger code to resolve this issue. The steps are simple * Stop the application * Backup the DB * Run through the code to remove the Trigger * Recreate the Trigger * Start the primary server and test * […]