Who deleted my community?!? – the answer
I received a question today who was responsible for the deletion of their community. I wondered where I could find this information. This is where.
Continue readingDuplicate users in the Homepage.person and Homepage.Loginname table
We had a lot of errors in the SystemOut.log of our News application showing that somewhere there was a duplicate user where it shouldn’t be. This blog discusses the steps taken to solve the issue
Continue readingSyncing users with changed GUID
The PROF_GUID or External ID as it’s called in the Connections documentation should be a unique and unchanging constant for each user in your Connections environment. Sometimes things happen though which cause this constant to change. This seriously messes up your Connections databases. This post shows the commands to fix that.
Continue readingIBM HTTP Server as reverse proxy
IBM HTTP Server works perfectly as a reverse proxy if you know how to configure it. This article shows you a possible configuration
Continue readingLimit the creation of private communities
A social software platform is meant to share information freely within the organisation. Sharing information however doesn’t come natural to everyone. This post describes how you can restrict creating restricted communities to promote wanted behavior
Continue readingHow to find out what communities a user owns
Every now and then you might want to know what communities a user in your company is a member/owner of. There’s a wsadmin command that you can use, but it has its caveats. This article explains what SQL query you could use
Continue readingPush Notifications app floods the SystemOut.log
After upgrading to IBM Connections 6.0 CR3 Tthe SystemOut.log was flooded with the following message:
com.ibm.lconn.pushnotification.bayeux.auth.PNSSecurityPolicy unable to get or set advice from application.. We PMR’d it and received an answer
Changing your Active Content Filter in IBM Connections 6.0
Did you get any complaints from users that after an upgrade to Connections 6.0 they can’t use certain style attributes anymore in their posts? This post explains what to do
Continue readingCleaning up your Linux OS
A short blog with some commands that I often use myself whenever one of my Linux VMs is running out
Continue readingFavicons in Connections 6.0
Read how to change the favicons in IBM Connections 6.0. It’s not the same as in previous versions!
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