Files Plugin for Lotus Notes does not upload documents

Posted by on 4. May 2012 2 comments

If you are using the Files Plugin Lotus Notes from the Greenhouse Solutions Catalog, you may be finding yourself being able to see and download all files in IBM Connections Files repository, but when trying to upload a file though, …

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iFix LO64399 for Mobile Support in Connections does not work on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

Posted by on 8. March 2012 No comments
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Some may have noticed that even after installing the iFix LO64399 September Update for IBM Connections 3.0.1 the mobile Applications on iOS and Android don’t work, even though the iFix Installer says it has been sucessfully installed.  Sjaak Ursinus found …

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Population of Connections Database Field DisplayName if this entry does not exist in LDAP

Posted by on 14. December 2011 No comments

Today I noticed in a customer installation that nowhere in the LDAP a usable displayname (aka “Martti Garden”) was available.  My collegue Barbara Koch helped me out solving this:  The attributes surname (sn) as well as givenname (givenname) were available …

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Social File Sharing: IBM Connections vs. MS SharePoint

Posted by on 10. November 2011 No comments

A collegue brought the following great comparison of Social File Sharing in IBM Connections and MS SharePoint to my attention.  While it is done cleary from IBMs point of view I still can’t believe that SharePoint could be that “unsocial” …

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Resetting WAS-Admin Password when the Browser Console does not work anymore

Posted by on 4. November 2011 No comments

If you have to reset the WAS Admin password without using the web interface  (e.g. if you cannot log in anymore for various reasons) here is how you reset a forgotten WAS-Admin password: 1. Go to your WAS-Profile/bin directory using …

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How to activate Spotlight-Search for Lotus Notes content

Posted by on 23. September 2011 No comments
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One of the greatest thing of Mac OS is the Spotlight-Search (CMD+Leertaste) that gives me instant access to data and information on my computer.  Spotlight can also be used to search and find mails in Lotus Notes – actually even fast …

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Lotus Notes displays wrong calendar week

Posted by on 14. September 2011 No comments
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Under certain circumstances it is possible, that Lotus Notes will display the wrong calendar week.  This is due to different counting of calendar weeks in e.g. Europe and U.S. (in Europe weeks starting on Monday in the US on sundays). …

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Manually delete the Search- / Index- /CleanUp-Taks for Connections directly in the DB2

Posted by on 9. September 2011 No comments
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After I had to reinstall an IBM Connections 3.0.1 system (a HDD crash destroyed the installation and of course Murphy made sure the customer did not have a working backup) I realized, that certain tasks did not run correctly anymore. …

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TDI User Import – tampering with the collect.dns can be dangerous

Posted by on 8. September 2011 No comments
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Sometimes in a testinstallation of IBM Connections you may only want to import a few specific user.  This can be done by editing the collect.dns by hand, because only the users present in this file will be added to the …

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Backup / Restore of an IBM Connections environment on file basis

Posted by on 7. September 2011 No comments

In todays time of virtual machines the easiest and simplest way of getting a backup is doing a snapshot. I usually recommend it everytime bigger changes such as upgrades are done.  But not always there is the option to get …

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