Welcome @stoeps.de, the blog of Christoph Stoettner
I work at Vegard IT GmbH as a senior consultant with a focus on collaboration software, Kubernetes, security and automation. I mainly deal with HCL Connections, WebSphere Application Server, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and Linux.
Sometimes my daily work results in technical talks and blog articles, which you can follow here more or less regularly. You can find the presentations in the main menu under public speaking .
I created a list of tools I use regularly, most of which have been released under an open source license.
In my spare time I read a lot, test all kinds of technical software and gadgets and try to follow about 200 RSS feeds.
Here you can find a collection of them.
This is my private blog, all opinions are my own.
Last created or modified articles
I started reviewing old blog post and replace links, or check if the information is still valid. So here are the last updated articles.
- Troubleshooting Top Updates in HCL Connections · Created: 2023-12-04
- Hide widget from Highlights · Created: 2023-11-29
- Change spellchecking to hunspell in TinyMCE · Updated: 2023-11-02 · Created: 2022-07-12
- Migrate MongoDB in HCL Connections Component Pack 8 · Updated: 2023-11-02 · Created: 2023-09-21
- Security Directory Integrator connecting to Active Directory LDAPS · Created: 2023-11-02
The newsletter in version 2 format has one big disadvantage, we or our users lost the easy links to the topic, author profile or application.
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The last days I analyzed an issue, that file uploads to HCL Connections via IBM HTTPServer stopped working on a fresh installed 6.5CR1.
Today I configured a Connections 7 and tried with it. I think that the official documentation is old in some important parts for the upload configuration.
First of all my IBM HTTPServer 8.5.5.18 is not 32-bit like the documentation tells us:
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Since IBM Connections 6.0CR4 we can use a new newsletter format which needs still (now with HCL Connections 7) be activated separately in LotusConnections-config/notification-config.xml.
Today some users asked how they can add other users to their private communities (visible in Community catalog) without manually adding them. As we investigated the question I had a look at the old notification format.
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Since the update to the new HCL Connections Community Card-Based Overview (Connections 6.0 CR4) I search for a way to hide the button “Create Community” from users without the role “Community-Creator”. This was always possible in the earlier versions of Connections, but the button was shown always since the update.
During the year I mostly forgot about it, but yesterday I opened a case with HCL Connections Support and got immediatly following answer:
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I write most of my documents (blog posts, documentation, recipes and so on) with Asciidoctor . Everything is organized in Git repositories.
During GPN 19 (Gulaschprogrammiernacht) I showed how to build html and pdf with a Gitlab CI/CD pipeline . That’s quite handy, but lots of documents I build, I just need locally.
So today I played with WSL2 and a Makefile to build all Asciidoctor files in a directory.
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