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 […]
Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 3
In part 3 of the series we will actually attempt to migrate the data. Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 In my experience the database migration is always most time consuming, so I always do the database first Use the text file of Commands that we created in part 2. Back up the […]
Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 2
In part 2 of this series we will cover preparing the system and the commands and files required. There is a fair bit of file creation to do and configuring of the Database Transfer Tool (DBT) Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 Step 3 – Prepare a system to recieve the data As […]
Migrating Connections DB from Oracle to DB2 part 1
For those of you that follow me on twitter, you will have noticed that I have posted a number of tweets relating to a fun project I am working on. I have been working with a customer to move them from Connections 5 to Connections 5.5 – Not a massive issue – EXCEPT they are […]
Locked down doesn’t mean locked out
Over the past few days I have been installing a Connections environment in a locked down windows environment with a very agressive group policy. Which was a lot more locked down than I expected it to be, so here are a few gotchas that I discovered that may assist you if you are in the […]
Changing Websphere Portal context root
I must remember that when changing the Portal context root to REMOVE THE WINDOWS SERVICE .. if you don’t it WILL fail … so Step 1 – REMOVE THE WINDOWS SERVICE Step 2 – change the context root – Edit wkplc.properties file (in ConfigEngine/properties, change WpsContextRoot from wps to < context of your choice > […]