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M-Files Outlook Pro add-in configuration

In this blog post, I will outline the steps required to enable and configure the M-Files Outlook Pro add-in. This includes configuring Microsoft Outlook rules to automate email handling. It took me some time to configure the rules, as(…)

Monitoring MSSQL Database Files in Zabbix

Introduction Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server database files is an important part of infrastructure supervision.A database reaching its storage limit can rapidly lead to application outages, transaction failures, or even complete service interruptions. The Initial Problem In SQL Server, retrieving(…)

M-Files BD – Putting it together with the Visual Designer

After several posts of theory, it’s time to build something. In this post, I will walk you through a Visual Designer tutorial to create a complete Contracts dashboard on the M-Files Sample Vault. Therefore, no JSON editing is required(…)

Highly Available, Load-Balanced PostgreSQL with Patroni, HAProxy, and Keepalived

Patroni runs your PostgreSQL cluster and handles failover, promoting a replica the moment the primary dies and recording the change in its distributed store (etcd, Consul, or ZooKeeper). That part works on its own. Your applications still need(…)

MongoDB DMK 2.5.0 : Sharding support and new features

In this blog, I will present the new features introduced with the latest release (2.5.0) of the MongoDB DMK. The DMK is a set of standardized tools that aims at easing the work of DBAs by having dbi’s(…)

Upgrade RHEL from 9.6 to 10.1 (when running PostgreSQL/Patroni)

Upgrading from RHEL 9.6 to 10.1 is not just a routine update, it’s a major platform shift. When your server runs PostgreSQL compiled from source and a Patroni-managed cluster, the complexity increases significantly. System libraries change, Python environments break,(…)

M-Files BD – The Admin part

So far in this series I have covered what an end user sees, the anatomy of a dashboard definition, the seven widget types (scalar,(…)

After years of ECM projects, here’s how I do things differently nowadays

In IT, it is essential to stay up to date, as technology evolves at an ever-accelerating pace. As consultants, we constantly face new challenges, many of which extend beyond purely technical matters, while adapting to diverse contexts(…)

Expose your Kubernetes pods to your Tailnet using Tailscale operator

In one of my previous blogs, I explained how to use a Tailscale sidecar container into an existing pod to expose it to your Tailnet. Even though this works fine, it can be tedious to set up and(…)

GoldenGate Trail Purge Task Fails with “OGG-12111: JSON element ‘/csn’ does not match any schemas”

Since the beginning of the year, I had the opportunity to upgrade many GoldenGate setups to 26ai. On two of them, I was facing an issue regarding purge tasks that I could not solve. Since it took quite some(…)