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Bypassing SharePoint Server 2013 Prerequisites Installation Error On Windows Server 2016 SYMPTOMS Before running the setup of SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2016, the prerequisites as the application server role and the web server role have to be installed and during that process, the following error message appears: ROOT CAUSE This error occurs when one or more of the…
systemd configurations for Documentum systemd has been with us for several years now and has slowly made its way into most Linux distributions. While it has generated much controversy among sysV init hard core, the fact is that it is here to stay and we, Documentum administrators, don’t have our say in this topic. In effect, it does not impact…
When supporting Documentum, we often got complaining from users like “The search is not working” or “I cannot find my document”. The first reflex is to verify if the xPlore is working properly. The second reflex is to perform a search test but all is working correctly. Then we contact user to get more details about his search. Sometimes the…
This is part II of a two-part article. In part I, we introduced the Documentum repository file structure and saw a first way to transfer content files from one filesystem to another using the repository to get their full path on disk. We saw how to generate an easy to parallelize set of rsync commands to completely or partially copy…
I must confess that my initial thought for the title was “An optimal repository filestore copy”. Optimal, really ? Relatively to what ? Which variable(s) define(s) the optimality ? Speed/time to clone ? Too dependent on the installed hardware and software, and the available resources and execution constraints. Simplicity to do it ? Too simple a method can result in…
A few weeks ago at a customer, our team was involved in a security control. We tracked files with 777 permission and we detected that logs generated by Documentum jobs have 777 permissions. Security before anything else, that’s why this topic was my top priority! First of all, I checked the logs on some Content Servers, and I had the…
Introduction Nowadays, restful APIs are used in any product, almost. In the era of web services, it is normal to have the same for documentum. In this blog I’ll show you a part of this API for documentum, how to test it, how to use it, and what could be done with it. Installation In order to install the Documentum…
This blog will go straight to the topic. When upgrading/installing your content server to 7+, you may experience an internal error with a popup telling you to look into a file called something like: DBTestResult7092863812136784595.tmp In fact, the installation process failed to test the database connection. Even if it managed to find your schema previously. In the file you’ll find…
As the saying goes, “A Picture Is Worth A Thousands Words”. I’d add “And A Simple Graph Is Worth A Long, Abstruse List of Numbers”. And of words too, so let’s show off a little bit: Interested ? Then, please read on. It happens not so infrequently that we wish we could quickly plot a few numbers to have a…
Welcome to part II of a three-part article on extending gawk with a SQLite binding. Part I is here. Part II is followed by Part III, which give some explanations for the code presented here and shows how to use the extension with a stress test. Here, I’ll list the source code of the extension and give instructions to compile…
Quick: what is the most used database management system on our planet ? Oracle ? Wrong. SQL server ? Wrong again ! MySQL ? You’re almost there. It’s SQLite. Surprised ? I must confess that I was too. Actually, SQLite is special in that it is not the traditional 2-tiers client/server but one-tier and embedded, which means that it works…
When working with xPlore as a Full Text Server (indexing), there are a few ways to perform a full re-index. You can potentially do it from the IndexAgent UI, from the Dsearch UI, from the file system (with an ids.txt file for example, it is usually for a “small” number of r_object_id so that’s probably not an ideal way) or…
