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Elasticsearch in HCL Connections Componentpack is secured with Searchguard and needs certificates to work properly. These certificates are generated by bootstrap during the initial container deployment with helm
.
These certificates are valid for 10 years (chain_ca.pem
) or 2 years (elasticsearch*.pem
) and stored in the Kubernetes secrets elasticsearch-secret
, elasticsearch-7-secret
. So when your HCL Connections deployment is running for 2 years, the certficates stop working.
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During the latest automated deployment of the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft™ Windows™ , I had issues activating the Password Save Policy
. We wanted to disable the option that users can save passwords.
The documentation tells us, that the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IBM\Social Connectors\Settings\Password Save Policy
needs to be set to 1
to achieve this.
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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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