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We planned to do our full production upgrade in a weekend – and one part was the replacement of FAST by xPlore. As we had to index more than 10 millions objects, we had to find a solution where the full repository would be indexed by Monday morning. Since we used a clone of production to validate and test our…
The new D2-Client does not correctly display the icon for some formats. This usually happens when the icon.css is not up to date based on the content format in the repository. The solution is to find these formats and update the icon.css. Here is the solution in three simple steps: 1) Find all formats described in icon.css grep -B1 formats icon.css…
To enhance the search capability we had to configure xPlore to use the new customer attributes as facets and configure D2 to use the default and new facets. Configuring xPlore to use facets with the customer attributes Stop the Index Agent and Server Update indexserverconfig.xml by adding the following line (e. g.): Keep only the indexserverconfig.xml file in $DSSEARCH_HOME/config Remove…
This is another blog posting an our Documentum upgrade project. This time, the following issue occured: the ActiveX could not be installed using the D2-Client. We had to access the D2-Config url to have it installed. For a normal user, this could not be used. Analyzes The workstation had the ActiveX for D2 3.0 installed, the version before the upgrade.…
After having installed the Documentum Administrator, one of our test was to open a document. When I opened one for the first time the content was empty although I knew it contained text. But the correct content was well displayed when I opened it a second time. In the ucf trace file I had: FINE: sun.net.www.MessageHeader@108565d6 pairs: {null: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server…
We started the Documentum upgrade in the wintertime and our jobs ran successfully by following the defined schedule. Once we moved to the summertime we hit an issue: A job that was scheduled for instance at 4:00 AM was executed at 4:00 AM, but also started every 2 minutes until 5:00 AM. We had this issue on all our 6.7SP2P009…
A few weeks ago, we finished a Documentum upgrade at a customer site. Now, after having analyzed and made a status point (we do that after each upgrade project to optimize our procedures and skills) it is time to share our experiences. In this post and in the ones that will follow we will describe which issues we were confronted…
While working on a customer project, I needed to retrieve the SQL Server SCOM Management Pack version. Unfortunately, the SCOM team took a while to answer and as I am the DBA, I have access to the SCOM databases. So let’s have a look at how we can get this the “hard” way. On 30/06/2014, a new Management Pack was published…
In this blog post I want to sharing some useful DQL and IAPI queries that I am using all the time. They are more dedicated to Documentum support/debug and grouped by components. In order to use them, I recommend Qdman: it is the best tool I know to use DQL and IAPI scripts. 1. xPlore It regroups both the search…
In the previous blog, I described How to install and manage a Kerberos Server but that’s useless if there are no clients and if no application have been kerberized! That’s why in this blog I will explain in the first part how to install a kerberos client in linux. The second part will be dedicated to the configuration of a…
I have decided to make a resume of the presentation “Upgrading SharePoint 2013” by Sam Hassani that I have followed at the European SharePoint Conference 2014. This is meant for the people who did not have the chance to attend to the event taking place from 5 to 8 May 2014 in Barcelona! For more details on the Conference presentations,…
SharePoint performance is a recursive problem and preoccupation. As a Database Administrator, we have to deal with SharePoint when configuring SQL Server databases. In this article, I will propose a list of best practices in SQL Server settings aimed to reduce SharePoint performance issues. This article is inspired from the presentation Optimizing SQL Server for Speedy SharePoint by Sahil Malik…
