Dachnug49 in Constance

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The annual conference of DNUG took place in Constance from 22nd to 23rd of June 2022.

I attended the HCL Connections Roadmap session given by Rene Schimmer and David Strachan. They showed the updates for version 8 and beyond.

Talking about version 8. HCL Connections will get named after evergreen trees from version 8.

New naming scheme for Connections - ©HCL Software

So next HCL Connections release is Cedar. For this version a public preview is available, when you are not already registered, have a look at following urls.

Connections 8 Preview - ©HCL Software

There were several sessions on HCL Connections, but one I will long remember:

Einmal in “schön” bitte: Wie wir die KOSMOS beim Umbau der HCL Connections Communities unterstützt haben

Sandra Buehler and Olaf Braun did a very entertaining session and talked about their project to bring Connections within KOSMOS to a new level. The project should ensure that a selected number of communities meet current user requirements, both in terms of content and layout.

I did a session on open-source tools I use on a regular basis. They can help to administrate, document or troubleshoot a Connections environment, but can also be used for most web applications.

Session slides HCL Connections Admin Toolbox and as a list , if you only want to see the tools.

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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.

           

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