Enterprise content management

Managing multilingual documents including version control

Business requirements Manage version controlled documents The documents must be available in different languages Each document has his own initial language version The translated documents must be in relationship with the initial document Should a document version be subject to(…)

Issue with external connector in M-Files Server 25.1 (January 2025)

Problem defintion I encountered an issue with the configuration of an external connector in the M-Files Server 25.1 (January 2025). In my case, this was the M-Files Network Folder Connector. The installation of the Vault Application proceeded smoothly, as usual.

M-Files Ment: no code document automation solution in practice

Who has never experienced repetitive tasks writing documents based on similar layout content, making sure it is compliant. Don’t you think this activity is using a lot of your precious knowledge worker time and often include small errors or typos?(…)

Documentum – Login through OTDS without oTExternalID3

As you might know, Documentum “deprecated” (in reality disabled completely) the different Authentication Plugins that were bundled with a Documentum Server. That means that with recent versions of Documentum, you cannot login to your LDAP-managed account anymore without having configured(…)

Documentum – Silent Install – OTDS

A bit more than 6 years ago (already), I wrote a series of blogs about the silent install of some standard Documentum component. It included things from the binaries, the Docbroker (Connection(…)

M-Files Ment Integration configuration

In this blog we will be looking at the configuration of M-Files Ment Integration into an M-Files vault. We will discuss the configuration, the benefits and learn how to work with it.This is a follow-up to the webinar I hosted(…)

Documentum – 23.4 doesn’t like IPv6 being disabled?

I often see customers with Virtual Machines or Containers that have IPv6 disabled. I assume this is mainly for simplicity, since most services are usually only running internally, and organizations don’t really need more IPs than what IPv4 can provide(…)

Documentum – Impact of Java 17 and JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS

If you are familiar with Java, you probably know that starting with JDK 9, you may need to add some “–add-exports” or “–add-opens” parameters to the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS. This is the Strong Encapsulation, which started with JDK(…)

M-Files Regional Partner 2024 (Geneva)

Last week, I had the pleasure to be invited to the M-Files Regional Partner in Geneva. M-Files people rallied around us: Tero Antila – Director EMEA Partner SalesHelinã Mellanen – Senior Enablement ManagerEmilie Feat – Senior Partner Manager SwitzerlandSebastian Wegener(…)

Documentum – xPlore Dsearch not starting with a stuck rebuild

I recently faced another interesting issue (c.f. this one) with Documentum xPlore where the Dsearch would refuse to start because of a stuck online rebuild. It happened on a Kubernetes environment using custom images we built(…)