Customizing IBM Connections – as seen at #NLLUG #socbiz2012
Wed, May 16th 2012 8:12a Sharon Bellamy Yes you can stuff a 2 hour technical jump start into an hour .. and get good feedback ..
Connections customization lite
View more presentations from Sharon Bellamy
I will also share the css and demo files when I get back home .. message me if you are interested.
Next outing for this #soccnx in June [read] Keywords: connections
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Returning user login issues – fun with the connections databases
Mon, May 14th 2012 7:12a Sharon Bellamy I recently had an issue with a user having issues logging in to certain applications.
The user could log in to some apps but recieved an error on others – for instance profiles, activities, communities and forums the user was fine.
Each applications database holds information regarding the user login and their external / directory / guid id – this guid is unique to the user – I found after extensive investigation that this user had orphaned entries in the other application DB t [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Connections III
Wed, May 2nd 2012 7:10a Sharon Bellamy Social Connections III will be upon us soon – I am very pleased to be part of the group that organises these events for IBM Connections users, administrators etc.
One thing I would personally like to see is more people that are thinking about using connections and existing domino admins (who are likely to get asked to look after a potential connections environment) to these events – we cater for potential users and admins as well as existing.
So my question to those potentials is wha [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections 101 – what a fantastic idea
Wed, Mar 28th 2012 5:12p Sharon Bellamy I think a community high five is in order for Mr Paul Mooney and Ms Gabriella Davis.
They have taken on the mamoth task of creating a Connections 101 site that will assit those new to Connections and WebSphere to get you up and running with advice, information and assistance.
Something like this can not come soon enough.
I am lucky, I have been what I would describe as “mucking about with” WebSphere for the past 11 odd years. I had a very good teacher (thank you Bleddyn), and the b [read] Keywords: connections
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Tidying the blog
Wed, Mar 28th 2012 5:12p Sharon Bellamy Today I decided to tidy my blog and to try and make a bit of sense out of all the *stuff* I throw up on this site ..
That is throw up as in post .. not as in .. well you know what I meen …
Anyways after much hacking and slashing at php files, creating new templates for pages, new side bars for said pages and eventually getting my head around functions again, I think I have myself organised.
The SocialShazza site now has two main topics .. Technology and Disney.
All of the Disney stuff can [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections fix pack 3.0.1.1 now available
Wed, Mar 28th 2012 11:13a Sharon Bellamy At last Connections fix pack 3.0.1.1 is now available to download and fixes lots of little issues, including the firefox feature with files and wikis and the issue chrome has with files.
I installed it on my test system yesterday and it went very smoothly.
The fix pack can be downloaded from Fix Central. Fix ID is: 3.0.1.0-LC-Multi-FP001
The Fixpack is installed using the IBM installation manger (IM).
It was very straight forward – basic steps are as follows
Download the fixpack zip [read] Keywords: connections
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Back from DLP and man it was great
Mon, Mar 26th 2012 1:11p Sharon Bellamy Had a fantastic time at Disneyland Paris for 6 days .. and it was GREAT !!!
So the Highs and Lows of the trip ..
Lows:
Princess Pavillion – Lovely looking BUT be prepared to wait 2 hours for princesses – the shortest time I ever saw the queue was 60 mins and that was an hour before it was due to close. It opens at 10:30am and people we queueing from 9am !!! We did wait 2 hours to see a princess, but only the once – IMO I would rather pay and have a decent meal at Auberge and s [read] Keywords: reservation
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Happy 10th Birthday Walt Disney Studios Park
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 2:13p Sharon Bellamy DLP Studios park turned 10 years old today
There was a day of rather muted celebrations today, never the less the Studios has become a great addition to DLP – the up-and-coming Ratatouille dark ride coming in 2014 and more work possible on revamping other parts of the Studios there is much to look forward over the next couple of years.
I am off to DLP for 6 days on Sunday so will report on how constuction and revamps are going – DLP needs some serious investment – it is an aw [read] Keywords:
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A fix for the Chrome header issue
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 7:12a Sharon Bellamy Stuart blogged back in January about a known issue with downloading files from the files application using Chrome.
IBM do not officially support Chrome with Connections 3.0.1 – but our good friend & IBM Champion Sjaak Ursinus has devised a work around.
Header edit Content-Disposition ^(.*)creation-date=(.*);smodification-date=(.*);$ “$1creation-date=”$2”; modification-date=”$3”;”
ensure the mod_header module is uncommented httpd.conf
save and close [read] Keywords: connections
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Issue with custom themes and communities
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 7:12a Sharon Bellamy I have had a PMR open for some time relating to a bit of a known issue with Custom themes and Connections communties
There was an issue where you would create a custom theme
In my case I also customised the coloured community themes also
When clicking on forums, blogs etc the theme was stripped out displaying
It appears there was a step missing from the wiki!!
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/Defining_a_community_theme_ic301
Step 1.d – d. Remove the file theme.css from the corpo [read] Keywords: connections
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Issue with Connections media widget timing out
Thu, Mar 15th 2012 6:12a Sharon Bellamy Whilst building a new Connections environment for a customer we noticed a strange issue when uploading large files to the media gallery.
Initially I thought it was related to the size of the file, but the same file will upload to the Connections files application without issue. There is very little errors in the SystemOut.log for the Connections server, so I was baffled.
A PMR was opened and the very helpful Mr Dave McCarthy was the PMR owner and we then started on our investigation. During the [read] Keywords: connections
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Tue, Mar 6th 2012 5:14a Sharon Bellamy As kindly shared by Mr Luis Benitez, the portion of the Lotusphere 2012 OGS of the lovely Suzanne Livingston demoing what is coming in IBM Connections version 4 and beyond.
For those of you who didn’t managed to catch it live or on the OGS replay – if you are interested in Connections it is a must watch.
More information about the newest version of Connections will be available at the next Social Connections user group – see socialconnections.info for more details. [read] Keywords: connections
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Locked down doesn’t mean locked out
Wed, Feb 15th 2012 5:12a Sharon Bellamy Over the past few days I have been installing a Connections environment in a locked down windows environment with a very agressive group policy.
Which was a lot more locked down than I expected it to be, so here are a few gotchas that I discovered that may assist you if you are in the same situation.
In this scenario we were using 3 machines:
machine 1 – DB2, TDI and Domino (for LDAP)
machine 2 – Connections (Deployment manger and Connections node)
machine 3 – HTTP server
DB2
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Weird issue with TDI Connections Wizards
Fri, Feb 10th 2012 12:13p Sharon Bellamy I noticed a weird issue with the TDI Connections population wizard today.
Originally we had TDI 7.1 installed for some specific issue that were addressed when synching different LDAPs together – that worked, the connections population wizard and all the scripts worked a treat (good news if you want to use TDI 7.1)
Now due to one thing and another we took TDI 7.1 off and put TDI 7.0.0.5 back on the machine – BUT if you do not replace the Connections Wizards directory you will get issu [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotusphere Saturday 14 Jan
Fri, Feb 10th 2012 9:12a Sharon Bellamy After a not bad nights sleep, I was up at 7 and off to breakfast at 8 with Mick Moignard.
Disney do lay on a good breakfast and I enjoyed my eggs and bacon followed by mickey mouse head pancakes
After breakfast I met up with Darren & Stuart and wandered outside to see part of the annual hog ride.
Our community has a few bikers so Paul Mooney, Bill Buchen etc. organise a hig ride on saturday & sunday. Hire a bike and see Orlando.
Stu headed off to do his outlet shopping so I grab [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere Friday 13 Jan
Fri, Feb 10th 2012 6:10a Sharon Bellamy Friday is a bit of a blur.
I got to the airport met up with My friends Sam & Mike, their son luke, and 2 of sam’s sisters (yn & charlie) who were going to Orlando as they were getting maried on Monday 23rd January.
I also bumped into mr Paul Withers and his wife and the Cardiff boys.
Once at the gate it was like a reunion, lots of community people heading out to orlando for the annual pilgrimage
The flight was good, watched movies, ate food, drank juice & generally tri [read] Keywords: domino
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What is a BOF and why should I attend one?
Fri, Dec 30th 2011 3:10p Sharon Bellamy A Lotusphere BOF – is a Birds of a Feather Session
“Ok” I hear you say “What is all that about”
Well, a birds of a feather session or BOF as they are most commonly referred to – are sessions that have no presentations, slides or hand outs.
These sessions are informal, interactive discussion groups for like-minded attendees to share ideas and experiences in a small group, open forum setting.
The usual tools involved (other than the attendees) is coffee, a white [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Meal Plans announced for DLP
Tue, Dec 20th 2011 5:13a Sharon Bellamy Wow – looks like DLP are really *getting with it* and are offering a full board plan as well as half board now
Half Board
You’ll be given 1 Meal Voucher per person per night of your stay.
This voucher allows you to enjoy an Unlimited Buffet OR Set Menu (1 Starter, 1 Main Course, 1 Dessert) PLUS 1 Drink (Soft Drink 33cl or Water 50cl) at any of the available restaurants according to the Meal Plan tier chosen.
Full Board
You’ll be given 2 Meal Vouchers per person per night [read] Keywords:
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Social Connections II a grand day out
Mon, Dec 19th 2011 9:10a Sharon Bellamy It’s taken me a while to post this – mainly becuase I am still recovering from the ‘Zombie Flu’ – aka the hideuos cold and chest infection which is now on week number 4!!
Social Connections II was in a not so sunny Cardiff Wales and my adventure started when I picked Ms Lisa Duke up at Gatwick airport very early the day before the conference.
To cut a long story short, 5 trains, a quick lunch, much social and work related brain storming, a very wet walk in some &# [read] Keywords: connections
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Pre LS12 fun
Wed, Nov 30th 2011 5:12p Sharon Bellamy No ICS / Lotus Community members were harmed during the production of this video
Although – Cole was reduced to tears
Thanks to all involved for being good sports .. enjoy [read] Keywords: lotus
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Well it is official … I am off to LS12
Tue, Nov 29th 2011 7:12a Sharon Bellamy It’s official now – I am to be the sole representative of Applicable at Lotusphere 2012 – so no pressure on gathering information then !!!
Hotel and Flight are all booked, just waiting for the session announcements coming this friday (2nd Dec 2011) to see if I will be presenting or not.
I would love to present to give back some of the knowledge I have back to the community – but if I don’t get a session I think I will cope
I am planning on attending as many sessio [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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DLP Fan Survey
Fri, Nov 25th 2011 9:11a Sharon Bellamy At last Disneyland Paris are asking fans what they think
The Official Online Survey is running now and until the 12th of December 2011
If you are a Disney fan and enjoy visting please fill it in and give DLP an idea what us Disney fans in Europe would like to see.
The questions range from general how many Disney films do you own kind of questions to more specific questions relating to visiting the park, what you would like to see etc.
How great would it be if DLP considered something like the D2 [read] Keywords: email
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DLP’s 20th Birthday brochure now available
Fri, Nov 18th 2011 2:11p Sharon Bellamy As announced on the DLRP Today website the 20th Anniversary brochure is now available.
It has been spotted in UK Travel agents although I haven’t seen a copy yet – BUT it is available in all its glory from the Disneyland Paris website HERE.
The highlight is bound to be the new Dreams night time show – due to take over at the castle – with extended opening hours reported between 1st of April and 30th of September – although we have been assured the Dreams show will r [read] Keywords:
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JustNudge Twitter widget is just fantastic
Mon, Nov 7th 2011 11:11a Sharon Bellamy Michael Ransley from JustNudge has released a fantastic twitter widget to extend the connections profile. The IBM® Connections Twitter widget allows a user to share their twitter feed from within their profile. The widget uses a profile extension to capture the twitter username and then calls the twitter API when a user clicks on the widget. It is very straight forward to deploy Here are the steps: Check out the profiles-config.xml file Add a new profile extention attrib [read] Keywords: connections
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lotusphere tips site
Fri, Oct 28th 2011 6:12p Sharon Bellamy All the talk of Lotusphere got me thinking (dangerous I know) Last year I was a Lotusphere virgin - 2011 was my very first Lotusphere and I had no idea what to expect - other than what my good friend Mr Stuart McIntyre had told me and some of the lovely people I follow on twitter. I, of course, thought they were exaggerating the long days, the walking, the late nights, the social aspect of it - after all it's just a tech conference - right ? O my how I was wrong ... It was like no [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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lotusphere tips
Fri, Oct 28th 2011 5:12p Sharon Bellamy All the talk of Lotusphere got me thinking (dangerous I know) Last year I was a Lotusphere virgin - 2011 was my very first Lotusphere and I had no idea what to expect - other than what my good friend Mr Stuart McIntyre had told me and some of the lovely people I follow on twitter. I, of course, thought they were exaggerating the long days, the walking, the late nights, the social aspect of it - after all it's just a tech conference - right ? O my how I was wrong ... It was like no [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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well the lotusphere abstracts are open then
Mon, Oct 24th 2011 9:10a Sharon Bellamy Later than we were expecting the call for the Lotusphere 2012 abstracts are now open : Lotusphere 2012 - Call for Abstracts You only have until the application deadline: Sunday, November 6th 2011 so not long at all .. This years tracks : Jump Starts & Master Class Sessions: Audience: Developers, system administrators and technologists, IT managers of all levels Track 2: Technology for Collaboration Solutions : Infrastructure & Deployment: Audience: System administrat [read] Keywords: collaboration
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Thu, Sep 29th 2011 2:24a Sharon Bellamy Tomorrow is my last day of being an IBM customer working for City University. Monday I move back to the Business Partner world when I start working at Applicable. After spending almost 7 years previously at a Business Partner, the past 2 and a half years as a customer has been a real eye opener, but I have reconnected with lots of IBMers, made new connections in the community and some really good friends. In the time working at City I have had the pleasure of working with some fantastic [read] Keywords: connections
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social connections 2 registration open
Thu, Aug 25th 2011 6:11a Sharon Bellamy SOCIAL CONNECTIONS II NOW SCHEDULED!! The second Social Connections event will take place on 9th December 2011 at Cardiff University in central Cardiff, Wales. We are delighted that our next event is now in the diary and organising the details of the event continues apace. Registration is open and we are seeking speakers from around the world. For more details of the Social Connections II event, check out the details and then register. We also have a number of FAQs already answered. I [read] Keywords: connections
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Technology is not the problem
Thu, Aug 18th 2011 3:25a Sharon Bellamy Ripping out a software or technology stack is not going to fix the issues of bad project management, lack of collaboration and user engagement. The technology is not the problem - in a workshop run by world renown Collaboration expert Michael Sampson he explained to the audience that the technology - regardless of the vendor - is only 10% of any kind of user adoption hurdle. 10 % Tech Vs 90% People Strangely enough 90% of the audience got it - the normal users, the power users th [read] Keywords: collaboration
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On the move
Wed, Jul 27th 2011 6:10a Sharon Bellamy I have been a little quiet on the blog of late In between helping Stuart with the Connections user group and having some family time I have also managed to secure myself a fantastic new job. In October I will be leaving the world of Higher Education and be heading back to the exciting world of Business Partners :) I am off to Applicable to work with WebSphere, Connections and other WebSphere related collaboration solutions - all the stuff I live, breathe and love to play with - I may ev [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Social Connections 1 - the session videos
Fri, Jul 8th 2011 6:15a Sharon Bellamy Here are the recordings of the sessions from Social Connections 1. Session 1 First morning session, featuring Stuart McIntyre of Collaboration Matters, Daniel Siddle of Headshift and Jon Mell of IBM. Session 2 Second morning session, featuring Stuart McIntyre, Mike Roche of IBM, Joseph D'Armi of Portal and Michael Ahern of IBM. (Apologies, this is a lower quality recording than that originally streamed - the higher quality version was corrupted.) Session 3 First afterno [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Social Connections 1 - the sessions
Fri, Jul 8th 2011 6:15a Sharon Bellamy The majority of the presentations from Monday are in the Social Connections 1 event on Slideshare, including the following: Stuart McIntyre's opening session: Social Connections 1 - Welcome Daniel Siddle from Headshift/Dachis Group: The Why, What, How of Social Business Jon Mell from IBM: Things I wish I'd known 5 years ago Joseph D'Armi from Portal: Iâm too busy to collaborate Michael Ahern from IBM: Beyond the Basics: An Overview of User Life [read] Keywords: connections
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Social Connections 1 - Thank You
Wed, Jul 6th 2011 6:14a Sharon Bellamy I would like to say a Thank you to all that supported the first Social Connections user group in London on Monday 4th July. There was a fantastic turn out of 50 people on the day and 120 watching the sessions on-line. Thank you to all the speakers - sessions and presentations will be available (watch the Social Connections site for details) Thanks to all that assisted in the setting up and running of the event To the boys at the Salvations Army for a fantastic venue, AV and streaming servi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Champion - honoured and humbled
Thu, Jun 23rd 2011 6:14a Sharon Bellamy I am deeply honoured and humbled to have been chosen as one of the 50 Worldwide Champions for IBM Collaboration Solutions. I wanted to echo the thanks of all the other IBM Champions to the selection and organising committee, the wonderful people who nominated me and to the rest of the community for being generally awesome and inspiring me to follow in your footsteps. The full list of champions can be found here : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/champions/ Thank you SO muc [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM is 100 today
Wed, Jun 15th 2011 8:13a Sharon Bellamy Today International Business Machines - IBM - is 100 years old ... There are some mile stones dear to me .. 1970 - when I was born - the database as we know it was invented 1988 - the AS400 was invented - anyone that knows me well knows of the love I have the AS400 (iSeries, System i, i5, i and now Power 7) machines most of my career in IT has been involved with these fantastic machines. 1997 - eBusiness .. I spent 7 years working with IBM's e-business products (WebSphere Comm [read] Keywords: ibm
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Announcing the first IBM Connections user group!
Thu, Jun 9th 2011 5:16a Sharon Bellamy I am delighted to announce that today we are launching: Social Connections - the IBM Connections user group Initially based in the UK (but open to members world-wide) Social Connections aims to be the place where individuals with an interest in IBM Connections can come to meet, share knowledge, develop best practices, discuss adoption strategies and to generally build a network of key folks with a similar focus. We will try to be customer-focused, enabling organisations that ar [read] Keywords: collaboration
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gotchas, UKLUG, and TWiL
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 5:39a Sharon Bellamy I haven't blogged for a while ... (again) .. mainly because I have been a busy little Shaz I spent a few days at UKLUG in Manchester - which was brilliant I must say. I spent some time with friends old and new - as always it was fantastic to spend time with Darren and Lisa Duke and the lovely yellow wearing Mat Newman - but was also good to see some of the other Loti that I don't socialise with in my normal working life. UKLUG was actually very good - I attended a couple of sessions on [read] Keywords: collaboration
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WebSphere User Group 23 march
Tue, Apr 5th 2011 6:10a Sharon Bellamy WebSphere User Group 23rd March 2011 I was really looking forward to the WebSphere User Group - I haven't been immersed in fellow WebSphere geeks for a while (other than Dave Hay) so It would be great to catch up with some other purple people. 3 of us from City went - as well as me, Anu my line manager (who is a portal/wcm guru) and Julia the "new girl" who is a WebSphere admin and is picking up all the *tech* we use. The day was pretty full on with lots to do. Bedfont is a great loc [read] Keywords: admin
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A grand day out (x 2)
Fri, Mar 25th 2011 6:14a Sharon Bellamy I have spent a couple of Grand Days Out this week - being as I am just a little busy at the moment I wasn't sure if I could spend the time out of the office, but I am pleased to report it was a worth while exercise. Wednesday 23rd March was the WebSphere User Group (WUG) - at IBM Bedfont Thursday 24th March was the Dachis Social Business Summit 2011 (SBS2011) - at the Imagination Gallery London Both were very different days, I will elaborate more in separate posts but here is the con [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Community Champions
Tue, Mar 22nd 2011 9:11a Sharon Bellamy On today's LITE call Joyce Davis has announced that IBM have started a Champions Program and are going to include the Lotus Community Details are still being sorted out and will be promoted shortly - but it's IBM's way of recognising the contribution that some of us make - Joyce was very specific to make sure that some of the unsung hero's that fly under the radar that do a lot for the Lotus Community are recognised. What a great way to recognise all the work that some of the Community [read] Keywords: ibm
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SSO is not my friend
Mon, Mar 14th 2011 6:20a Sharon Bellamy SSO is not my friend I have tested the theory that the LTPA issue I was seeing would go away when I reinstalled connections - A new box, a new connections cluster of one. I ensured the realm name was set correctly with out the escape in the gui and it was .. so I have configured LTAP SSO between my connections 3 and portal 7 instances. I can log on to connections and navigate to portal - or - log on to portal and navigate to connections - no SSO errors .. Attached new connections instan [read] Keywords: connections
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Equality ? it’s relative
Wed, Mar 9th 2011 5:15a Sharon Bellamy After watching the "Equal" clip yesterday that was promoted as part of International Women's day it got me thinking - a dangerous thing at that. Equality is a strange thing .. Even in this modern day and age it's amazing how some people have different attitudes towards me because I am a woman ... and it's not just men that think that way .. I will try not to get too personal but some of the subjects highlighted in the "Equal" clip are far too close to the bone. I have typed o [read] Keywords: mobile
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Examples of Domino Apps in Websphere Portal
Fri, Mar 4th 2011 8:11a Sharon Bellamy I am still after some examples of Domino Apps being surfaced through WebSphere Portal and so far have come up with a bit of a blank. We will be attempting this at City in the future as our CASS Business School are heavy Domino users - most of our internal content and applications will be served via or linked from Portal and I was wondering how many other people do this ? As well as for my own curiosity I am also interested in including an example or two in my potential UKLUG session "co [read] Keywords: domino
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LTPA issue getting better
Fri, Mar 4th 2011 6:13a Sharon Bellamy The way to resolve those pesky realm miss match issues is to clear the existing scheduler and indexing entries in the database. This was very straight forward as IBM provide the SQL scripts to do this. Shipped in the connections wizard package there is a handy little folder called connections.sql - in there are some scripts organised by feature and then db type Go and find the clearScheduler.sql for the following features : Activities, Communities, Files, Forums, Homepage,Profiles and [read] Keywords: connections
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LTPA issue update
Wed, Mar 2nd 2011 5:20a Sharon Bellamy I have made some progress on my LTPA issue - with many thanks going to the people who have assisted me which proved that I hadn't totally lost the plot : First issues were around the nodes not synchronising properly Resolved by disabling Synchronize changes with Nodes in the Console preferences, restarting the WAS server and then re-enabling it. Fixed the issue on both the Connections and Portal servers. The main issue around the LTPA not working was due to a rogue escape character sh [read] Keywords: connections
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LS11 Trip Day 7
Thu, Feb 24th 2011 5:11a Sharon Bellamy Thursday 3rd - February â Day 7 â LS11 Day 4 Overslept - 9:30 am !! Oops how did that happen ? Well Shaz going to bed at 5am that is how that happens. I dragged my butt out of bed, had a quick shower and headed straight to where the action was .... Gurupalooza - I crept in the back hoping i wouldn't look like i had only just woken up. It was about half way through with a flurry of questions being fired at the panel. My "Guru" friends who were up there looked a little ti [read] Keywords: domino
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Where is the Love?? Right there
Thu, Feb 24th 2011 5:11a Sharon Bellamy I am SO pleased I decided to record Mr Mat Newman's "Where is the Love" session at Lotusphere .. It is proving to be extremely popular and I only wish that I had managed to secure a better position to video it on the "flip cam" I borrowed from the University. Stuart has kindly uploaded it - and am still convinced we should make an "ilovematnewman.net" web site .. but for those of you that haven't seen it yet - here it is in all it's glory : http://vimeo.com/20265120 Enjoy .. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Help me "Yellowverse" you are my only hope ...
Wed, Feb 23rd 2011 3:16a Sharon Bellamy Help me "Yellowverse" you are my only hope ... In a galaxy not so far away a young Padawan residing on the rebel base of Planet Lotus is sending a plea . Assistance is requested from some Domino Masters, Xpage Pilots and Notes Rebels. I am planning a UKLUG session with my master Stuart McIntyre and would like some examples of the following if possible: Exceptional Web Experiences that are Domino based Exceptional Web Experiences that are written in Xpages Any Domino / Xpages applic [read] Keywords: connections
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LS11 Trip Day 5
Fri, Feb 18th 2011 8:17a Sharon Bellamy Tuesday 1st – February – Day 5 – LS11 Day 2 How I managed to crawl my butt out of bed for breakfast was a miracle. I managed it none the less and met up with Stuart and some of the other guys. We then headed over to the 2nd keynote of the week. I managed to get a seat on the right not too far from the bloggers den and settled down for the next instalment in what’s happening. I am sad to say it was very much the same as the previous day – lots of talk, panels and not [read] Keywords: connections
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LS11 Trip Day 4
Fri, Feb 18th 2011 7:11a Sharon Bellamy Monday 31st - January – Day 4 – LS11 Day 2 Up at 7:30am - almost bright considering I only had about 5 hours sleep. Headed down to breakfast IBM style – found Stuart again and some of the other blogging crew and hung out and had a chat until we needed to take seats for the OGS. As the bloggers get reserved seats I had to sit with the masses and managed to get a seat about half way in. Opening General Session – Opened with a great band playing. The Alistair did a fan [read] Keywords: connections
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LS11 Trip Day 3
Fri, Feb 18th 2011 5:17a Sharon Bellamy Sunday 30th - January – Day 3 – LS11 Day 1 So Sunday morning and day 1 of Lotusphere. Business Partner Development day + jumpstart sessions for us non BP’s. I was up at about 7:30 and revved up and raring to go. I skipped the IBM provided breakfast and instead opted to have *real* breakfast in the hotel with Sam to just have a chat and find out her plans as I knew I wouldn’t be seeing too much of her this week. I then went out and about on the prowl to see who I c [read] Keywords: connections
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Sandy Carter is coming to City
Thu, Feb 17th 2011 3:33p Sharon Bellamy Today we are lucky enough to be having a visit from the new VP for Social Business Sandy Carter! She is popping in to see us at City University this afternoon. Other than on the main stage at Lotusphere and seeing her walk about I didn't really get a chance to talk to her at all when I was there. Stuart interviewed her for the Lotusphere Pod Cast though and said she knows her stuff - and Mr Social would know :) I am looking forward to the opportunity to talk to her and to listen to [read] Keywords: ibm
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What a fantastic meeting
Thu, Feb 17th 2011 3:25p Sharon Bellamy Had a fantastic meeting with Jon Mell, Sandy Carter and my CTO Carl Stokes about helping our University become a real Social Business .... lots of ideas and lots of very constructive help and advice was given .. this is the start of a beautiful relationship I feel :) Also we all sold Carl on the idea of how fantastic Lotusphere is .. and he has promised we can go in 2012 .. :D Lots will be occurring in the next few months in my organisation as far as rolling out some our Social tooling to [read] Keywords: foundations
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LS11 Trip Day 2
Wed, Feb 16th 2011 9:48a Sharon Bellamy Saturday 29th January â LS11 Trip Day 2 â 1 Day to Lotusphere Saturday was Disney Day ... Being a massive Disney fan as well as a geek I couldn't come all the way to Orlando and not go and take a squiz at a Disney park. So we trotted down to guest services - Sam got a 5 day hopper pass and I bought a one day park pass. The breakfast of champions was consumed - 2 servings of scrambled eggs, bacon, potato wedges (so cool to have at breakfast), followed by some Mickey Mouse pan [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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LS11 Trip Day 1
Wed, Feb 16th 2011 6:30a Sharon Bellamy Friday 28th January – LS11 Trip Day 1 - 2 Days to Lotusphere My day started off really early, very early, possibly too early - my usual 4am start as I had to train it halfway across Kent to meet up with my friend Sam (who's not a technical but is a fellow Disney fan) who was hitching a ride to Orlando with me. We arrived at the airport at approx 10 am (flight was at 13:00), checked in, dumped bags and headed for a McDonalds. From the MaccyD’s we spent 2 hours planning an atta [read] Keywords: ibm
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Woah â Lotusphere 2011 â how cool was that
Wed, Feb 16th 2011 5:30a Sharon Bellamy Well I have come back crashing down to reality after the amazing experience that was Lotusphere 2011. I was very fortunate to meet and hangout with the nicest bunch of people I have ever met. I will be blogging over the next week or so about my experiences as a Lotusphere virgin newbie. There were some fantastic sessions, great social events, pretty much a party every night and of course Kimonos. Some of my highlights were: Meeting all the guys - there were some great people there and the [read] Keywords: lotus
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The build up to LS11
Tue, Jan 18th 2011 6:29a Sharon Bellamy I have been ridiculously excited about the prospect of going to Lotusphere for quite a while. to be honest I really didn't think I would be able to go - I had submitted an abstract which would have fallen into the theme of "Social Business" which was this years theme - but I don't think our Uni was a big enough player to be chosen. If it wasn't for the boys over at "This Week In Lotus" and a huge campaign from the community and a big push from some lovely people in IBM I wouldn't have [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2011
Mon, Jan 17th 2011 6:16a Sharon Bellamy Well I am off to Lotusphere this year YAY!! to say I am stupidly excited is just a tiny understatement. For those people living under a rock Lotusphere is THE premier event for those interested in Lotus technology. Everyone who is someone in the world of Notes/Domino, Connections, Quickr and Portal will be at this event - including the lovely Stuart McIntyre who assisted in my campaign to get there. I have much planned for the week including : Taking over Stuart's "Speedgeeking" s [read] Keywords: connections
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