Morgan Patou

Documentum story – IAPI login with a DM_TICKET for a specific user

During our last project, one of the Application Teams requested our help because they needed to execute some commands in IAPI with a specific user for which they didn’t know the password. They tried to use a DM_TICKET as I suggested(…)

Documentum story – ADTS not working anymore?

A few weeks ago, on one of our Documentum environments, we find out thanks to our monitoring that the Renditions weren’t generated anymore by our CTS/ADTS Server… This happened in a Sandbox environment where a lot of dev/testing was done in(…)

Documentum story – Manual deployment of X DARs on Y docbases

In a previous blog (click here), I presented a common issue that might occur during the installation of some DARs and how to handle that with what Documentum(…)

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(…)