NotesIn9 191: A Beard, an App, and a Blender 
By David Leedy | 6/28/16 6:13 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
IBM Champion Eric McCormick makes a triumphant return with a show that needs to be seen to believed. And I really mean that because I literally can’t describe it and do it justice. Apparently there’s a great big world out there for developers and Eric does a great job introducing it to us.
Missed the Social Connections 10 keynotes? Watch the replays now!
By Let's Connect user group | 6/6/16 4:50 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
We had an excellent first morning at Social Connections 10 event in Toronto today, and for the first time ever, professionally live-streamed the main tent sessions.
If you missed all or part of this broadcast, the first three sessions are now available for replay via our livestream site
Libraries to install on CentOS 6.x and setup WebSphere Portal 8.5
By Kenio Carvalho | 5/28/16 6:47 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
I now CentOS is not supported. For several years i use CentOS without problemas with IBM Software. The information bellow is the list of packages to install on CentOS and run WebSphere Portal and Db2 on the same machine. This is a Lab machine it’s like a all in one box.
ICS Summer School - Sign-up Now 
By Bill Malchisky | 5/4/16 12:02 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Don't let your kids, your sibling(s)'s kids, or even your neighbor's children be the only one's getting smarter this summer. The IBM/Lotus Community has some great opportunities to help you learn with your friendly community members and some of the most knowledgeable presenters anywhere. (European offerings will be posted soon.)
Breaking news: IBM Sametime AV 1 to 1 available on IBM Connections Cloud !
By Matteo Bisi | 4/3/16 8:40 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Breaking news: IBM Sametime AV 1 to 1 available on IBM Connections Cloud !
After the mainenace scheduled this weekend IBM has made available and update for IBM Sametime connect and IBM Sametime embedded client with 8 fixes including the enablement of audio video call, available now for 1 to 1 !!!
First impressions of IBM Verse Offline Mode
By René Winkelmeyer | 3/15/16 1:16 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
As IBM has announced on this years IBM Connect conference the long awaited offline functionality for IBM Verse is now available.
So I activated it to see what’s in (and what’s not).
DB2 HADR Configuration for STSC Database
By Milan Matejic | 2/24/16 12:43 PM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho
You already have a Sametime System Console and two DB2 Servers installed. One of the DB2 Servers will be used as a DB2 Primary Instance and the other one as the Secondary. One of the DB2 Servers will be used as a DB2 Primary Instance and the other one as the Secondary.
Connect 2016 Day 3: Future of Domino, Connections and Hogsmeade
By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/3/16 5:19 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Woke up half past five in the morning. My internal clock is still not up to snuff. The humidity outside was unbelievable and there was so much fog that I opted for a 4 x 4 interval run on the thread mill instead of running around the lake.
IBM Verse: Next Impressions
By Red Pill Now | 2/3/16 4:45 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
While IBM didn’t say it, I couldn’t help but think that IBM Verse is in the process of being totally integrated into Connections, to the point in which I am not sure if it would make any sense to try and identify (or use) it as a separate product. It would be hard to have Connections without Verse,
IBM Project Toscana – Collaborative thoughts…
By Reynout van Adrichem Boogaert | 2/2/16 7:02 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Yesterday I watched the live stream of the Opening General Session of IBM Connect (at ibmgo.com/connect). It was great to see my many familiar faces on stage presenting.
On of the new thing that was announced was IBM Project Toscana…. wondering what catchy name will be found as I will Toscana you just too much a mouth full. But the question is off course where does it come from.
Moving IBM Connections databases to another disk
By Kenio Carvalho | 2/2/16 5:32 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
On my connections test server i installed everything in one machine. The home directory for db2inst1 user ends the file space. The databases and all containers are under the default of /home/db2inst1. So we can use db2relocatedb to move them.
IBM Verse: Final Impressions
By Red Pill Now | 2/1/16 11:44 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Back in May of last year I shared my first impressions in using IBM’s new e-mail client Verse. After using Verse for seven months the trial in which I had been participating came to an end. It was an interesting time as my experience with Verse caused me to look very closely at the various email clients I have been using and challenge what really matters to me in my choice of an email client.
WebSphere Portal V8.0 setup SPNEGO and a small big difference
By Kenio Carvalho | 12/7/15 5:24 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Setup SSO with Windows Desktop is not so hard. But when things is not well documented you can get a big headake. A customer ask to implement this SSO. The environment was a WebSphere Portal V.8.0 cluster and the user repository was AD 2012.
Nagios plugins for IBM Connections
By Klaus Bild | 11/11/15 2:56 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Back from a very successful Social Connections event in Stuttgart, more than 260 participants were there and I enjoyed every minute!
Thx again the whole Soccnx team, the best event so far!
My session was titled “How to monitor your IBM Connections environment with Python Scripts, JMeter and Nagios” which is pretty self explaining.
Security Vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Portal
By Kenio Carvalho | 10/23/15 4:56 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Several versions of WebSphere Portar are vulnerable.
IBM WebSphere Portal could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to restrict access to resources located within web applications. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain configuration data and other sensitive information.
Social Connections 9 In Germany – Only Three Weeks Away
By Christoph Stoettner | 10/15/15 1:57 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
The next big IBM Connections Community event – Social Connections 9 – takes place November 05/06 in Ehningen / Germany. The theme of the event is “Working out loud” and it offers tons of sessions all around IBM Connections and Adoption in the social software world.
This will be my fifth Social Connections Event after Zurich, Prague, Stockholm and Boston, for me personally all of them were great experiences and personally very successful.
Seriously, Though: Reverse Proxies
By Jesse Gallagher | 9/16/15 3:31 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
So, Domino administrators: what are your feelings about SSL lately? Do they include, perhaps, stress? It's "oh crap, my servers are broken" season again, and this time the culprit is a change in Apple's operating systems. Fortunately, in this case, the problem isn't as severe as an outright security vulnerability like POODLE and, better still, there is a definitive statement from IBM indicating that they are going to bring their security stack up to snuff almost in time.
IBM Software and iOS 9 Support
By Bill Malchisky | 9/16/15 6:41 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
As Apple plans to release its new mobile operating system today (16 September 2015), IBM kept busy the past few days updating their correlated technotes. Thus, it seemed appropriate to offer a few links to showcase how IBM plans to support this latest Apple offering vis-à-vis Traveler, Verse, and Connections Cloud Traveler.
A Statement From IBM On El Capitan and iOS9 Support
By Gabriella Davis | 9/15/15 12:28 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
IBM have today released a statement explaining why some applications will be unable to connect to Domino servers from iOS9 and El Capitan devices due to Apple removing support for Elliptic curve technology (no – me either) and enhanced transport security.
IBM roadmap for messaging and social platform - updated Sep 1 2015
By Chris Miller | 9/8/15 3:38 PM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
IBM sent an email to business partners with the IBM Roadmap for Messaging and Social Platform. This information is intended for IBM Business Partner information and is not to be shared with customers or prospects unless approved by IBM. The above video from MWLUG 2015 by Kramer Reeves may happen to contain a lot of the same information.
Another new feature with IBM Connections 5.0 CR3
By Christoph Stoettner | 8/18/15 2:40 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Within the fixlist of the new released CR3 of IBM Connections 5 there are several new configuration options mentioned. One of the interesting ones for me is the mobile update parameter AllowRemoveAccount. The default value is “false” and your Connections environment still works before, but what’s changed when you set this to true?
Using markdown with IBM Connections Blogs
By Christoph Stoettner | 8/10/15 11:48 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
I use markdown since years to create my articles or most of documentation stuff. It’s really cool to edit the text files on all of my devices, synchronize them fast through various internet services and create HTML, PDF or even DOCX files out of this sources.
Out of Office - Send Full Copy to deputy
By Thomas Hampel | 8/9/15 12:28 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Summer time, vacation time... You have enabled Out of Office notification, so why would you want to duplicate inbound mails?
Lets say you really are offline and you want your deputy / stand-in to take care of new mails, what options do you have?
In best case we want a deputy to receive a copy of each mail while keeping the original mail in your inbox.
Using DB2 in XPages Part 9: Access DB2 from a Java Agent
By Steve Zavocki | 7/27/15 10:47 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Unless I think of something else worthy of writing about, this will be my final post in this blog series on DB2 and XPages. I am grateful and honored by the compliments that have come my way with regards to this series.
Accessing Traveler or Domino HTTP from iOS 9 devices
By Detlev Poettgen | 7/24/15 10:06 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
App Transport Security is a feature that requires secure connections between an app and web services. The default connection requirements conform to the best practices for secure connections. Apps can override the default behavior and turn off App Transport Security.
Managing Users in Microsoft Active Directory with TDI - Part II
By Andreas Artner | 7/12/15 4:53 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Due to the various password complexity requiremts that you can define in Active Directory it took me some trials to find a good password generator.
Using the Websphere Liberty Profile Maven repo with Gradle
By René Winkelmeyer | 6/16/15 6:49 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
This is obviously not a biggy, so mainly a short reminder for myself.
For the current development we’re using the Websphere Liberty Profile (WLP) a lot. Based on our latest efforts of moving everything to Gradle I ran into the situation to setup the WLP repos for that.
Update on IBM Verse and the IBM Messaging Roadmap
By Chris Miller | 6/10/15 11:45 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
Today was the ICS Techtalk with an update on IBM Verse and the IBM Messaging Roadmap. I anticipated some defined timelines for IBM Verse enhancements and what we can expect in Domino Next. Here is the slide for the IBM Messaging Roadmap as of May 2015.
20,000 IBMers using IBM Verse in production
By Ed Brill | 6/9/15 1:03 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
About three months ago, my role within the IBM organization morphed from being focused on driving social business adoption internally, to an IT leadership role where I now also own the responsibility to deploy the social business platform. In our case, we are well underway with a major initiative to move all of IBM's email to IBM Verse.
In The Next Version - Collaboration Around Files - A Case Study On Working With Clients
By Alan Lepofsky | 6/5/15 3:02 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
I recently had the opportunity to speak with one of the world's largest advertising agencies about how they collaborate with their clients. Details of their solution are covered in the Constellation Research case study "Powering Global Client Collaboration with Secure File Sharing, How a Leading Ad Agency Used Egnyte Adaptive Enterprise File Services to Work with Clients".