Enterprise content management

Documentum – Applying Content-Security-Policy (CSP) on D2 while using WSCTF plugin

If you have ever been working on a sensitive Documentum environment (they are all sensitive, are they not?!), you might already have worked on hardening your Web Servers. One of these aspects is to have a specific set of HTTP(…)

Alfresco – Documents are searchable only after 3min

I had a case at a customer recently where newly uploaded documents into Alfresco would always be searchable but only after 2min45s to 3min. The environment in question is an Alfresco Content Services 7.1 with High Availability (Repository and Share(…)

Alfresco – Share Clustering fail with ‘Ignored XML validation warning’, again

In a previous blog, I mentioned an issue that I faced when upgrading an Alfresco Content Services 5.2 to 6.1 on a VM with no internet access. The solution was simply to change one of the schema(…)

Alfresco – Custom Share action not working after disabling WebDAV servlet

On an Alfresco upgrade project I was working on recently, I faced an interesting issue where post upgrade, one of my custom Share action wasn’t working anymore. This action was used to create folder links for use on an external(…)

Alfresco – ActiveMQ not starting, blocking Alfresco

As already mentioned in a previous blog, ActiveMQ has been used in the scope of Alfresco since quite some time. Initially, as an optional component but then, it became mandatory. Just like for the Database, if ActiveMQ(…)

Documentum – E_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR on D2-REST Product page related to GUAVA libraries after WebLogic PSU

At a customer, the D2-REST (16.5.1) application hosted on WebLogic Server 12c started showing 500 Internal Server Errors, after a customer release including many things. The error was rather simple to replicate since opening the D2-REST Product info page was(…)

Documentum – dmqdocbroker/iapi/idql not working because of dbor.properties.lck

Have you ever faced an issue where dmqdocbroker, iapi, idql and the likes aren’t able to communicate at all with any Docbroker (connection broker)? Here, I’m not talking about potentially wrong hostname, port or connect modes, which might prevent you(…)

Connecting to Repositories with the Same Name and/or ID

A rare but recurrent issue that customers sometimes encounter is to how to connect to each one of distinct repositories with the same name or same docbase id, or even both if one repository is a clone of the other(…)

dctmping, A Documentum Repository Checker Utility

When working with containers, the usual trend is to make them as compact as possible by removing any file or executable that is not used by what is deployed in it. Typically, interactive commands are good candidates not to be(…)

Documentum – SSL Certificate based secure communication setup

Around four years ago, I did a few presentations, here, in Switzerland about “Security & Documentum”. In there, I talked about a lot of different subjects related to both security and Documentum (you guessed it…) like: ciphers, SHA, FIPS &(…)