ICS & Connections

My opinion about Domino on Docker

In this post, I would like to summarize my thoughts about Domino on Docker. I will mainly focus on…

Deploy and use Connections Customizer

Some weeks ago IBM released Connections Customizer (on-premises) as part of the Component Pack 6.0.0.4. In this post, I would like to describe how to deploy, configure and use it.

Changing the Connections Admin user in a CCM enabled Connections installation

While migrating a Connections environment side-by-side I had the challenge to also change the connectionsAdmin and filenetAdmin alias user. In this blog post, I will describe the necessary steps to…

Deployment tips for Orient Me, Metrics & Customizer (ComponentPack 6.0.0.4)

Last week IBM released ComponentPack 6.0.0.4 which includes an updated Orient Me version, the new Elasticsearch based Metrics as well as the Connections Customizer. In this post, I would like to share…

Orient Me & CfC LDAP authentication

In many companies, it’s a requirement to only allow administrative access using a personalized user account. Therefore I thought it might be helpful to be able to configure the LDAP authentication with CfC. For CfC this is possible out of the box but because Orient…

Orient Me: Rethink your Docker storage driver configuration

I did some research around Docker storage drivers, CfC and Orient Me the last days because I had some issues in different Orient Me installations. Finally, I came to the conclusion that the Docker storage driver configuration…

Urgent fix for IBM Cloud private 1.2 & IBM Spectrum Conductor for Containers 1.1

As of today, all IBM Cloud private 1.2 & IBM Spectrum Conductor for Containers 1.1 environments stopped working because of an expired certificate. Because Orient Me is based on CfC 1.1 all…

Downsizing Orient Me

First of all: This is not supported by IBM and also not intended for a production environment!

Orient Me 6.0.0.1 does not run on a 4 core virtual machine which means that I’m not able to run it locally on my notebook. Therefore I searched for a solution to downgrade…

Orient Me with Docker 17.06.0-ce

Since yesterday Docker 17.06.0-ce is available. While installing CfC, which is part of the Orient Me installation, the installation process will install Docker using yum install docker-ce. This will install the latest available version. Unfortunately, the CfC…

Social Connections 11: All you need to know about Orient Me

In my second presentation, I was talking about how you can install Orient Me in your environment based on the needed installation steps and many useful tips & tricks:

Preview .xlsm files within IBM Connections

IBM Docs and the IBM File Viewer are supporting .xlsm (macro enabled Excel sheets) files since version 2.0 CR1. This feature was available for third-party integrations only. With the latest IBM Connections release (5.5 CR2) it is now also supported within…