Enterprise content management

HowTo – Detect and analyze long/stuck threads in Tomcat

Most Application Servers allow for long and/or stuck threads detection, to let you know that something is currently very slow, waiting on something or just simply stuck. On tomcat, this isn’t enabled by default, and you need to manually configure(…)

HowTo – Generate a custom AzureAD SSO Certificate

As you know, Azure Active Directory offers quite a big range of solution for Single Sign-On (SSO) with out-of-the-box capabilities and features that are quite good. But once the initial setup has been done, you will then need to manage(…)

HowTo – Create a quick Documentum rendition report

When working with any ECM solution, you will have to manage a rendition software. This is used to transform the native documents from most formats (docx, pptx, xlsx, txt, jpeg, png, svg, etc.) into another format (pdf, png, etc.). The(…)

Documentum – xPlore CPS temporary folder not being cleaned properly

At a customer using Documentum inside Kubernetes, unusually frequent restarts of xPlore containers were noted a couple weeks after the introduction of CPS Only pods on the different Production environments. The customer had a very simple Standalone xPlore setup, with(…)

M-Files DACH Partner Days November 2023

On the 20th – 21st November 2023, I was honored to attend my first M-Files DACH Partner days hosted in Düsseldorf, Germany. The event took place in conference hotel van Valk located next to the Düsseldorf Airport. On the first(…)

Doc.SERIES – The « User Friendly » ECM solution

There are several Electronic Content Management tools (ECM) on the market that are very powerful in their functionalities but are not always easy to configure or maintain, particularly if the size of your company does not allow for a large(…)

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Play the game

In previous blogs (here & here), I talked about the Repository skeleton necessary and then about how to use REST-API to add questions and answers into Alfresco for the Trivia Game. In(…)

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Add questions

In a previous blog, I talked about using Alfresco to setup a simple Trivia Game and more specifically the Repository part of it, i.e., the meta-model and the structure I will use. In this second part,(…)

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Repository skeleton

Have you ever wondered how you could use Alfresco to run a Trivia Game? No? Strange, I believe that should be a very important question to ask yourself when you are looking for an ECM for your company! If you(…)

Documentum – xPlore CPS unreachable and not starting

During an upgrade project of xPlore from 16.4 to 20.2 at a customer, I faced a quite interesting issue with the xPlore CPS (Content Processing Services) that couldn’t start properly and were, therefore, shown as “UNREACHABLE“. The funny thing is(…)