Morgan Patou

Documentum story – Management of DARs and unexpected errors

During a recent project at one of our customers, we often saw the message “Unexpected errors occurred while installing DARs”. In our case, this message happened when installing, migrating or upgrading a docbase on an already existing Content Server. We(…)

Alfresco – Protect your installation with Apache httpd

In this blog, I will talk about the setup of an Apache httpd server with/without SSL configuration on top of your Alfresco installation. This way of configuring Apache httpd in front of your Web Application can be reused very easily(…)

Alfresco: cleanup your dev environment

As an Alfresco developer/administrator, you probably already made a few mistakes in your DEV environment while trying to add new features, a custom model or something like that. The result of that mistake might be a corrupted Database or Content(…)

Alfresco: upgrade your version of Apache Tomcat

Different versions of Alfresco can be installed with different versions of Tomcat. Alfresco provide a default version with its installer but when installing Alfresco manually, an administrator can choose to install Alfresco using a different version of Apache Tomcat. Usually,(…)

Kerberos SSO with Liferay 6.1 v2

A little bit less than one year ago, I wrote a blog about how to setup the Kerberos SSO on Liferay using Apache httpd as a front-end, Tomcat as a back-end and with auth_mod_kerb and mod_jk to transfer the(…)

Alfresco: video thumbnails and transformations

Alfresco support, by default, the preview in your browser of some video formats like mp4 but doesn’t support some others like mkv, avi or wmv. Even if Google Chrome can read mkv files for example, if you try to use(…)

Migration of QlikView Services

QlikView is a product of the software company named Qlik (previously known as QlikTech) which was designed to provide business intelligence & visualization capabilities using reports or dashboards. The QlikView solution is in fact composed of some components just like(…)

Kerberos configuration for DFS 6.7 SP1

In my last post, I explained how to configure Kerberos for a CS 6.7 SP1. Unfortunately if you only configure the Content Server, it will almost be useless… If you want this configuration to be useful, then(…)

Kerberos configuration for a CS 6.7 SP1

In a previous post, I shared some tips to configure the Kerberos SSO with Documentum D2 3.1 SP1. Since that day, I worked on different projects to also setup the Kerberos SSO on some other components of Documentum. In(…)

Alfresco: some useful database queries

In my previous post, I talked about the Lifecycle of Alfresco Nodes. You may have noticed that I tried to insert in my explanations some elements that are specific to(…)