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SQL Server – Collecting last backup information in an AlwaysOn environment

Introduction Sometimes you face interesting challenges with unusual environment. One of my customer needed a automated and flexible backup solution. Said like that nothing very complex you will say. But if I mention that some databases were 60TB big with(…)

Upgrade your Power BI Report Server

Introduction Even if upgrading your Power BI Report Server is straight forward, I have been asked many times where to find the installation files and how to run it that I thought a blog is worth it. Before you start(…)

CMIS – Documentum – How’s it going on?

In a previous blog I talked about CMIS in general and showed you what importance it does have in ECM World. In fact, I already experienced CMIS in a project with Documentum and Alfresco involved! The(…)

CMIS – What importance does it have in ECM World?

As you know, there is a lot of vendors for Enterprise Content Management systems (ECM) and they all have different interfaces. Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a standard for improving interoperability between Enterprise Content Management systems.

JBoss EAP 7 – Modules, Extensions, Subsystems, and Profiles

The first step in JBoss world is to understand these terms and the relationship between each other: Modules, Extensions, Subsystems, and Profiles. Let's say that the definition of these terms is the same between Standalone and Domain mode. I will(…)

Documentum – LDAP Config Object “certdb_location” has invalid value

In a previous blog, I talked about the automation of the LDAP/LDAPs creation. However, the first time that I applied these steps, I actually faced an issue and I couldn’t really get my head around it,(…)

Documentum – Automatic/Silent creation of LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Objects

If you have been working with Documentum, then you probably already created/configured an LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Object (or several) so that your users can be globally managed in your organization. There are several compatible LDAP Servers so I will just(…)

Documentum – Automatic/Silent registration & approval of DFC Clients

In the past several months, I have been working extensively with several other colleagues on a migration of Documentum from VMs to K8s pods. We have been doing/using silent installations for several years already but there were still several manual(…)

Documentum – Fixing issues with the D2 Privileged Client utility

In a previous blog, I talked about the D2 utility that can be used to automate the registration, approval and global management of the DFC Client IDs and Privileged Clients. The instructions I gave were the(…)

Documentum – Beware of long hostnames for the Docbroker

Recently, I’ve been facing an issue more and more frequently where a Repository cannot register itself to a local/remote Docbroker. The root cause of the issue is simply that the hostname used for the projection to the Docbroker is too(…)