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		<title>Collaboration Today - Infrastructure - Connections</title>
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			<title>When Upload through IHS fails: a 30 second NFS mystery – Martijn's Blog</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2026/09/15/when-upload-through-ihs-fails-a-30-second-nfs-mystery/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2026/09/15/when-upload-through-ihs-fails-a-30-second-nfs-mystery/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:07:06 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Two environments. Same Connections version, same CR level, byte-identical application JARs, byte-identical mod_ibm_upload.so. On one of them, Upload through IBM HTTP Server (IHS) works perfectly. On the other, every upload above the configured threshold returns HTTP 500.
It took two days to find out why, and the answer had nothing to do with Connections, WebSphere or IHS. It was in the NFS mount options, and not the ones you would expect.]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Windows - Detecting Server-in-Maintenance</title>
			<link>https://milan.matejic.at/posts/hcl_connections_desktop_plugin_maintenance_mode/</link>
			<guid>https://milan.matejic.at/posts/hcl_connections_desktop_plugin_maintenance_mode/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:02:59 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[With the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Windows Version 26.08 update, we got a handy new feature.

First, the plug-in will alert users only once if it detects that HCL Connections is offline. Previously, users would get continuous alerts via pop-ups until HCL Connections was reachable again.

Second, we now have the ability to activate the “maintenance mode” for the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins, which will tell the plug-in not to alert the users at all.]]>
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			<title>Installation of HCL CNX 8 CR15 failed</title>
			<link>https://brandlrainer.info/2026/09/21/installation-of-hcl-cnx-8-cr15-failed/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:01:32 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Rainer Brandl</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I had the issue that I was not able to install the latest CR15 of HCL Connections 8 in a customer environment using the GUI of the Installation Manager. I always received the following error message when validating the connection to the Deployment Manager:CLFRP0005E: Cannot get SSL certificate from the Deployment Manager.]]>
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			<title>Renewing expired OpenSearch and Mongo certificates in HCL Connections Component Pack – Martijn's Blog</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2026/08/25/expiring-certificates-in-component-pack/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2026/08/25/expiring-certificates-in-component-pack/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:03:25 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[n the past, I’ve written about expiring certificates in your Kubernetes environment. These will hit you if you don’t update your Kubernetes environment within a year. Today, we were hit by other expiring certificates. Those of OpenSearch and Mongo, as part of the HCL Connections Component Pack.]]>
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			<title>Upgrading containerd from 1.7 to 2.x? Read this first!</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2026/07/09/upgrading-containerd-from-1-7-to-2-x-read-this-first/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2026/07/09/upgrading-containerd-from-1-7-to-2-x-read-this-first/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2026 15:07:49 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Since Kubernetes 1.20 deprecated Dockershim (and removed it entirely in Kubernetes 1.24), containerd has become the de facto container runtime for Kubernetes environments. HCL Connections Component Pack runs on Kubernetes, making containerd a critical dependency for Connections deployments.

Although HCL generally follows the Kubernetes release lifecycle in its Component Pack (CR) releases, containerd 1.7 remained the highest supported version for a long time. This changed with HCL Connections 8 CR14, which introduced support for Kubernetes 1.35 and, consequently, containerd 2.2.x. At the same time, support for containerd 1.7.x was dropped for Kubernetes 1.35 deployments.]]>
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			<title>PDF conversion failed after installation HCL Connections 8 CR14</title>
			<link>https://brandlrainer.info/2026/07/07/pdf-conversion-failed-after-installation-hcl-connections-8-cr14/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2026 15:06:22 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Rainer Brandl</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[After installing CR14 I received the information that the conversion of Wikis, Forum entries or Blogs is no longer working.During a remote session with HCL Support ( thx a lot to Ale !! ) we could find the cause and we also could solve it.It seems that the installation changed some setting in the custom properties for IC360 – it was set to “wasadmin” what caused the PDF conversion to stop working.
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			<title>Migrating Connections Ingress to Traefik – beware of these outdated Helm values</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2026/06/29/migrating-connections-ingress-to-traefik-beware-of-these-outdated-helm-values/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2026/06/29/migrating-connections-ingress-to-traefik-beware-of-these-outdated-helm-values/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:38:35 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[As the Ingress Nginx controller is has officially been retired in March 2026, HCL has moved the Ingress controller for the HCL Connections Component Pack to Traefik. The documentation lists a tarball with a script and yaml-file for the migration and deployment of Traefik.

The documentation lets you install the latest version of Traefik. At the time of writing the latest stable Traefik branche is 3.7. This branch has different helm values from the version that HCL apparently used when creating the tarball. A couple of helm values in the provided cnx-ingress-traefik-values.yml are no longer valid. These are the culprits:]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections 8 PDF Export and WebSphere Application Server FP28</title>
			<link>https://brandlrainer.info/2026/04/14/hcl-connections-8-pdf-export-and-websphere-application-server-fp28/</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:37:08 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Rainer Brandl</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Yesterday I installed WAS 8.5.5 FP28 on a customer environment with 2 interim fixes ( IFPH68976 and IFPH69757 ) because of some security issues.Today I received the information that the PDF export for Wikis is no longer working.Looking in the SystemOut.log I could see a lot of the following errors:java.security.cert.CertificateException: No subject alternative DNS matching hostname found.
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			<title>Standards are Standards until they are not</title>
			<link>https://wissel.net/blog/2026/04/standards-are-standards-until-they-are-not.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:10:48 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Stephan Wissel</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Standards are Standards until they are not - In my junior developer days, literally last century, a senior developer enlightened me: 'An open standard is only complete once its wording allows all participants to faithfully implement it to be absolutely incompatible to each other'.
Ambiguity is king. Our modern software is build on a few standard, each of them have rock solid parts (nobody questions a <h1>) and parts of, let's call them disagreements. I'll pick on JWT as an example
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			<title>Fun time with kubernetes and dns | Urs Meli's Blog</title>
			<link>https://www.ume.li/blog/2026/03/13/fun-time-with-kubernetes-and-dns/</link>
			<guid>https://www.ume.li/blog/2026/03/13/fun-time-with-kubernetes-and-dns/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:20:49 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Urs Meli</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[We had installed the component pack for HCL Connections 8 in a brand new kubernetes environment. All the containers started and looked fine. Once we routed the traffic through the mw-proxy, Connections stopped working. ]]>
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			<title>Check db2 HADR status with multiple instances</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/check-db2-hadr-status-with-multiple-instances/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/check-db2-hadr-status-with-multiple-instances/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2026 05:41:21 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Check db2 HADR status with multiple instances


Those of you that have to deal with multiple db2 instances on 1 machine know that it is annoying to get a quick overview of the HADR status in 1 go. You need to switch accounts, run the commands, etc...

I created a script you can run as root that will give you an overview, I added some color coding for convenience as well]]>
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			<title>HCL Sametime Chat on Windows - Metrics Deployment</title>
			<link>https://milan.matejic.at/posts/hcl-sametime-chat-on-windows-metrics-deployment/</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:31:34 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[A step-by-step guide on enabling Metrics for HCL Sametime Chat on Windows.

It’s always good to monitor the usage of any service you deploy. HCL Sametime offers a predefined Grafana Dashboard which helps you gain valuable insights, such as the number of logins and chats at any given time. To enable metrics on HCL Sametime Chat for Windows, there are a few mandatory steps to complete, which I will outline below.]]>
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			<title>Redirects in HCL Connections: Using HCEC, Customizer, and JavaScript</title>
			<link>https://milan.matejic.at/posts/hcl-connections-hcec-redirects/</link>
			<guid>https://milan.matejic.at/posts/hcl-connections-hcec-redirects/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 7 Nov 2025 06:55:24 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[We have recently faced the following challenge, our goal was simple:

Users in a specific LDAP organization should see a specific HCEC homepage.
All other users should be redirected to the global “My Communities” page.
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			<title>Removing security-auditlog indexes from your OpenSearch cluster</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/07/17/removing-security-auditlog-indexes-from-your-opensearch-cluster/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/07/17/removing-security-auditlog-indexes-from-your-opensearch-cluster/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:21:01 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[After my previous article on Querying the OpenSearch index, a colleague and I used the script to take a good look at the OpenSearch index in our environment. That environment, is a large Connections installation (45K users) in the Netherlands. We found two disturbing facts:

    The cluster status was yellow, due to the QuickResults index not having a replica of all its shards
    There was a huge amount of secruity-auditlog indexes, one per day. There were as many as the days passed since our migration to Connections 8

It turns out these two issues were closely related.]]>
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			<title>Querying your OpenSearch index</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/07/01/querying-your-opensearch-index/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/07/01/querying-your-opensearch-index/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2025 16:30:08 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[n the old days of Connections, we would check our ElasticSearch indexes through Kibana, but Kibana is no longer part of an HCL Connections Component pack installation. In HCL Connections 8, OpenSearch is a core component powering features like Orient Me, Type-Ahead Search, and Metrics. As an administrator, it’s critical not just to ensure that OpenSearch is running, but to verify that it’s indexing, storing, and serving content correctly.]]>
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			<title>WebSphere 8.5.5 FP27 &amp; HCL Connections… beware!</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/05/02/websphere-8-5-5-fp27-hcl-connections-beware/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/05/02/websphere-8-5-5-fp27-hcl-connections-beware/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 5 May 2025 03:49:13 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[HCL Connections 8.0 CR9 currently lists in its system requirements WebSphere 8.5.5 FP26 as its highest supported WebSphere version. However, I suspect that CR10 will try to support FixPack 27, which became available on April 21st. Brave companies might just update their servers with the latest fixpack, and usually that works just fine. This fixpack, however, has introduced changes in outbound TLS certificate hostname validation. What it does is if WebSphere will make a connection to https://example.acme.org, it will check if the certificate that example.acme.org returns contains my server.acme.org in either the hostname or as a subject alternative name (SAN). If it doesn’t, you’ll be greeted with a message:]]>
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			<title>Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere LDAP Security </title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/websphere_troubleshooting_disable_security/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/websphere_troubleshooting_disable_security/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:54:57 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Most of the LDAP connections from IBM WebSphere Application Server are configured with TLS. So you need to have the root certificate in the WebSphere truststore to connect.

In the past I had several issues where MS Active Directory certificates for LDAPS are only valid for one year. They were automatically recreated on the AD side, and the certificate is not using the domain root certificate but a self-signed one.]]>
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			<title>Migrate MongoDB 5 to 7 for HCL Connections 8 CR9 update</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/mongodb_5_to_7_migration/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/mongodb_5_to_7_migration/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:53:20 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[For HCL Connections 8 CR9, it is mandatory to update MongoDB to version 7. During my first migrations, I encountered some issues and would like to provide workarounds and additional troubleshooting tips to help others with this process.
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			<title>Better Navigation in Connections Scripts</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/connections_scripts_update/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/connections_scripts_update/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:47:17 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I haven’t touched the Connections scripts 
 for a long time, but I recently made some minor updates to fix compatibility issues with newer versions and added small scripts to speed up configuration. I also got the documentation script running from the menu.
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			<title>HCL Connections – Docs (Proxy) not Working After Installing IFPH63778 IBM WebSphere Application Server Fix</title>
			<link>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/hcl-connections-docs-proxy-not-working-after-installing-ifph63778-ibm-websphere-application-server-fix/</link>
			<guid>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/hcl-connections-docs-proxy-not-working-after-installing-ifph63778-ibm-websphere-application-server-fix/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 7 Feb 2025 02:23:38 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[If you're like me and want to keep your IBM WebSphere Application Servers up to date with the latest patches, you might want to skip the installation of IFPH63778 for 8.5.5.26 version of WebSphere, or at least exercise caution before doing so.

After installing IFPH63778 on my WebSphere servers hosting HCL Connections Docs applications, Docs Proxy application was unable to communicate with the required application servers, effectively breaking my HCL Connections Docs deployment.]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections – Component Pack Update – MongoDB Security Settings Update Issue</title>
			<link>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/hcl-connections-component-pack-update-mongodb-security-settings-update-issue/</link>
			<guid>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/hcl-connections-component-pack-update-mongodb-security-settings-update-issue/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 6 Feb 2025 03:19:45 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[During the HCL Connections Component Pack 8.0 CR8 update, some security settings are modified for the MongoDB replica set used by the HCL Connections Component Pack. This is managed by the check-and-update-mongo5-security Kubernetes (K8s) job, which creates the check-and-update-mongo5-security-* pod to change the security settings of the replica set. Once the job completes successfully, the K8s pod and the corresponding job are marked with the status complete(d)

However, in one of the HCL Connections environments I am working on, the job didn’t complete successfully. During my initial analysis, I found the following error in the log of the check-and-update-mongo5-security pod....]]>
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			<title>Indefinitely growing homepage.sr_index_docs table and forgotten search nodes</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/growing_srindexdocs_table/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/growing_srindexdocs_table/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:17:56 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[The last weeks I had twice the issue of a huge homepage database with HCL Connections. Both systems weren’t installed by me, but I reviewed them.

So I know this issues quite well since I faced it the first time years ago. This always happens when you migrate Connections environments side-by-side, and you forget to remove the old search nodes.

sr_index_docs is used to make all search nodes indexing newly upload files. When each search node has indexed the file, the entry gets removed from the database. As the old nodes are no longer running, they can’t index, and so these entries never get deleted.

In larger environments the table grows to millions of documents and the database size grows from some GB into the hundreds of GB. You see this growth mainly during database backup, or when you want to move the data to a new machine. So often nobody recognizes the huge waste of space.]]>
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			<title>Creating an IBM HTTP Server key db from a .pfx file </title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/01/05/creating-an-ibm-http-server-key-db-from-a-pfx-file/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2025/01/05/creating-an-ibm-http-server-key-db-from-a-pfx-file/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 7 Jan 2025 02:41:46 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[It’s a question that I get quite often. “Can you create a IHS key database for me from this pfx certificate”? Multiple of our customers use IBM HTTP Server. Either for HCL Connections, but also as a reverse proxy for other services. Most of those customers use a wildcard certificate for their IHS server that has to be renewed each year. As I hate this kind of repetitive work, I created a script to do it for me. As it could be of use to others, I decided to create a blog article about it.]]>
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			<title>Disable PDF Export in HCL Connections 8</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/disable_pdf_export_in_hcxt/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/disable_pdf_export_in_hcxt/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 3 Dec 2024 07:47:03 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[PDF Export sometimes uses a lot of resources and disabling helps to stabilize the environment

I had some issues with PDF export functionality in HCL Connections the last weeks.

The server became unresponsive multiple times due to high load from PDF exports. To quickly address the issue, the simplest solution is to disable the PDF export feature by configuring the icxt.pdfexport.access.requiredrole property in the Resource Environment Entries.]]>
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			<title>Changing the file size limit for a community</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/11/29/changing-the-file-size-limit-for-a-community/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/11/29/changing-the-file-size-limit-for-a-community/</guid>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 03:27:28 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[By default, a HCL Connections community can contain 500 MB of files in the Files widget. Depending on what kind of content is posted in the community, that might not be enough. It’s possible to change the file limit, both for communities and for personal files.]]>
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			<title>Apple push notification certificates expire on 4th of July 2024</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/push-notification-update/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/push-notification-update/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:23:00 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Push notifications certificates in HCL Connections 8 CR5 and CR6 need an update before 4th of July
Last week I checked some HCL Connections 8 CRx downloads in Flexnet and recognized these packages available since 2024-06-13: APNS (Apple Push Notification Service) certificates renewal for 2025.
Sounds normal, these updates need to be installed each year. First, I checked for the knowledge base document mentioned in the file name . It’s not published until now.
So I downloaded the package and extracted the content. The included certificates are valid from 2024-04-25 to 2025-05-25, so they start and end in the middle of the year.]]>
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			<title>Installing Huddo Boards on WebSphere-only Connections </title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/06/24/installing-huddo-boards-on-websphere-only-connections/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/06/24/installing-huddo-boards-on-websphere-only-connections/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:21:08 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Let me clarify what this article is about. Huddo (also known as ISW) is selling 2 versions of their Boards product:

Kudos Boards – The Java application that can be installed on WebSphere. Active development has stopped a few years ago
Huddo Boards – The product consisting of several containers, which can be installed on Kubernetes or a container engine like Docker. A version with limited functionality is part of the HCL Connections component pack and known as Activities Plus. This product is actively being developed and also available for other platforms.

Although the Connections Component pack was introduced in version 6 already, many companies refrained from installing it due to the serious amount of extra infrastructure needed to run these components, which includes a Kubernetes cluster. We call these the WebSphere-only Connections installations, as they only include the WebSphere stack part of Connections.

So what if you would like to use the full power of Huddo Boards without having to install a Kubernetes cluster? That’s what this article is about.]]>
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			<title>Be careful with search-admin role in HCL Connections </title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/search-admin/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2024/search-admin/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 3 May 2024 05:37:46 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I showed, in several slides and sessions, how you can use the search-admin role in the search application of HCL Connections for troubleshooting and reviewing some key configurations.
In several environments, my user or other administrative users have this role, just to access the link to /search/serverStatus for example.

Be aware, when you assign the search-admin role in the search application to a user, the advanced search will not return any result.]]>
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			<title>Installing wireguard on CentOS Stream 9 </title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/01/14/installing-wireguard-on-centos-stream-9/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2024/01/14/installing-wireguard-on-centos-stream-9/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:37:25 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[As I do a lot of my research on new Domino versions, Connections versions and HCL DX on my own server at home and as I’m often not at home, I figured I needed a VPN tunnel to my server, so I can work as if I am home. Wireguard has become kind of the de facto standard for these kind of situations, so I looked into installing it on my CentOS Stream 9 host.]]>
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			<title>Troubleshooting Top Updates in HCL Connections</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/troubleshooting-topupdates/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/troubleshooting-topupdates/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 5 Dec 2023 02:25:27 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Orient Me shows Top Updates on the startpage of Connections, but sometimes this view is empty, how is this generated?
Last week, I had three systems with issues displaying the Top Updates in the Orient Me. So I tried to find out which applications and containers are involved in generating the content for this view.
First, we need to know that Top Updates are part of the Component Pack, and the content of Latest Updates is the Activity stream data, which is read from the homepage database. 
If the Top Updates tab is not visible after deploying the Component Pack, check LotusConnections-config.xml; the serviceReference for orientme needs to be enabled. There is only one serviceReference allowed for an application in this file, so check for duplicate definitions when the tab is still missing.]]>
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			<title>Hide widget from Highlights</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/hide_hcec_widgets/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/hide_hcec_widgets/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:53:26 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[With HCL Connections 6.5 and later, we got the add-on HCL Connections Engagement Center (aka CEC, HCEC, ICEC or XCC) included in a normal HCL Connections deployment.

The HCL Connections license contains the supplement that HCEC can be used within Communities and is the base for the Highlights application. All other options are hidden and could be enabled in LotusConnections-config.xml (set <genericProperty name="icec.light">false</genericProperty>), but then you need to order the HCL Connections Engagement Center license.]]>
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			<title>Couple of things to watch out for when applying CR’s to HCL Connections</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/couple-of-things-to-watvh-out-for-when-applying-crs-to-hcl-connections/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/couple-of-things-to-watvh-out-for-when-applying-crs-to-hcl-connections/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 7 Nov 2023 10:14:24 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I was updating a couple of Connections environments to CR4 and some of them are using SSO using OIDC and a custom database name for ICEC ( so not ESSAPPS)]]>
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			<title>Security Directory Integrator connecting to Active Directory LDAPS </title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/sdi-connect-to-ad-ldaps/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/sdi-connect-to-ad-ldaps/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 3 Nov 2023 02:28:27 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Unknown Author</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I had one Connections’ environment that I wanted to switch from OpenLDAP to Active Directory LDAP. The old OpenLDAP environment used LDAPS to connect, and so I assumed that the change was done quickly.
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			<title>Migrate MongoDB in HCL Connections Component Pack 8</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/migrate-mongodb-data-for-cp/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/migrate-mongodb-data-for-cp/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 03:31:59 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[The official documentation, “Migrating data from MongoDB 3 to 5”, 
 wants to dump the MongoDB databases in 3.6 and then restore this data into the newly deployed MongoDB 5.
One issue with this process is that we can’t run the two MongoDB versions in parallel on Kubernetes because the provided helm charts and container for MongoDB 3.6 stop running after Kubernetes 1.21. On the other side, the helm chart providing MongoDB 5 can’t be installed on those old Kubernetes versions. So the process to update is:
Migration process 


Dump databases in MongoDB 3.6 (version delivered with Connections 7)
Update Kubernetes to 1.25 or 1.27
Restore MongoDB databases to version 5.0
So, you have to plan the process in advance because it is difficult to get the data when you forget something.


width=device-width,initial-scale=1,user-scalable=no Migrate MongoDB in HCL Connections Component Pack 8 · stoeps 49.642538;8.638950 DE Heppenheim, Germany 49.642538, 8.638950 Heppenheim The official documentation, “Migrating data from MongoDB 3 to 5”, wants to dump the MongoDB databases in 3.6 and then restore this data in]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections Mail Plug-in Deployment – Missing Information in the Documentation </title>
			<link>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/hcl-connections-mail-plug-in-deployment-missing-information-in-the-documentation/</link>
			<guid>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/hcl-connections-mail-plug-in-deployment-missing-information-in-the-documentation/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 00:18:43 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[If you are planning to deploy the HCL Connections Mail Plug-in, take note of the KB0092821 knowledge base article. This is a mandatory step that must be done in HCL Connections 8 CR1 and newer environments. If the steps described in KB0092821 article are not followed, you will get the following error message in the browser console:  Error: Unable to load https://<mailserver_hostname&gt; status: 403
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			<title>Build mongodb5 image for Component Pack with Buildah</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/buildah-for-cp/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2023/buildah-for-cp/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 07:14:41 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Build Mongodb5 Image For Component Pack With Buildah]]>
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			<title>Issues configuring the Sharepoint widget for Communities</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/issues-configuring-the-sharepoint-widget-for-communities/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/issues-configuring-the-sharepoint-widget-for-communities/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 6 Apr 2023 11:49:29 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
			<content:encoded>
				<![CDATA[On a recent deployment of HCL Connections I struggled getting the SharePoint widget to work.]]>
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			<title>Quick Tip: Stashing Log Files From Domino Testcontainers</title>
			<link>https://frostillic.us/blog/posts/2023/3/28/quick-tip-stashing-log-files-from-domino-testcontainers</link>
			<guid>https://frostillic.us/blog/posts/2023/3/28/quick-tip-stashing-log-files-from-domino-testcontainers</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:55:01 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jesse Gallagher</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[I've been doing a little future-proofing in the XPages Jakarta EE project lately and bumped against a common pitfall in my test setup: since I create a fresh Domino Testcontainer with each run, diagnostic information like the XPages log files are destroyed at the end of each test-suite execution.]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections 8 – PDF Export Issues After Installing CNX in a Clustered WAS Environment </title>
			<link>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/hcl-connections-8-pdf-export-issues-after-installing-cnx-in-a-clustered-was-environment/</link>
			<guid>https://milanmatejic.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/hcl-connections-8-pdf-export-issues-after-installing-cnx-in-a-clustered-was-environment/</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:12:31 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Milan Matejic</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Recently I encountered an issue with PDF Export, right after the installation of HCL Connections applications in a multi-node, clustered, IBM WebSphere Application Server environment. This problem only occurs in a multi-node WAS environment.

In the HCL Connections GUI, in the “PDF Export Access” settings of the”Edit Community” menu (Community –> Community Actions –> Edit Community –> PDF Export Access), the following error was displayed:
Error 500: org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Handler dispatch failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ibm/ess/ic/ic360/security/tai/Ic360ImpersonateUserTAI]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections – Journey to Connections 8</title>
			<link>https://www.ume.li/blog/2023/02/27/hcl-connections-journey-to-connections-8/</link>
			<guid>https://www.ume.li/blog/2023/02/27/hcl-connections-journey-to-connections-8/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:10:22 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Urs Meli</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[After the Connections 8 CR1 had been released, we upgraded our production environment. This is our journey]]>
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			<title>Always get the latest Huddo version in HCL Connections</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/always-get-the-latest-huddo-version-in-hcl-connections/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/always-get-the-latest-huddo-version-in-hcl-connections/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 03:09:31 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[We have documented how to connect to our version, but that documentation is focused on a manual install of Component pack and connecting to our systems from the start. I want to show how to do it if Boards is already installed and running using the automation scripts. You can obviously follow this guide if you did a manual install and connected to the HCL resources, I am just mentioning some specifics about the HCL automation you can ignore.]]>
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			<title>The state of Social Business continued – Meetup</title>
			<link> https://www.femkegoedhart.com/2023/01/23/the-state-of-social-business-continued-meetup/</link>
			<guid> https://www.femkegoedhart.com/2023/01/23/the-state-of-social-business-continued-meetup/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 04:14:33 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Femke Goedhart</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[The last HCL Ambassadors meetup we did last December had a bit of an open end and therefor we would like to continue where we left off: With the state of social business and the position of HCL Connection in it.

Join us and let us know!]]>
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			<title>Certificate Information tool </title>
			<link>https://www.xpagedeveloper.com/2023/certificate-information-tool</link>
			<guid>https://www.xpagedeveloper.com/2023/certificate-information-tool</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:40:04 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Fredrik Norling</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[SSL certificates, SAML certificates, Signing certificates the number is long of different kinds of certificates and you might need to check the name of a certificate, the start or end date or perhaps the thumbprint.

I use the tool mainly to get end dates of certificates sent to me from customers because I hate when they expire and need to be changed without any preparation. And the worst kind that most administrators often miss is the certificates that is auto created i.e. in ADFS servers, Azure Enterprise apps, Okta]]>
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			<title>HCL Connections Docs 2.0.2 High CPU load</title>
			<link>https://www.ume.li/blog/2022/12/08/hcl-connections-2-0-2-high-cpu-load/</link>
			<guid>https://www.ume.li/blog/2022/12/08/hcl-connections-2-0-2-high-cpu-load/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:32:03 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Urs Meli</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[We noticed on at least 2 environments, that the CPU load was around 100%, Memory usage 100% and Swap used 100%. Prior to the update, the servers ran happily and did not show any issues. The process list (htop) showed a lot of /opt/libreoffice7.2/program/soffice.bin tasks.]]>
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			<title>Keycloak and Kerberos</title>
			<link>https://www.ume.li/blog/2022/12/23/keycloak-and-kerberos/</link>
			<guid>https://www.ume.li/blog/2022/12/23/keycloak-and-kerberos/</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:29:33 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Urs Meli</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Goal:
Login to your Windows Client and do not have to login to Connections

Motivation:
Sure you can configure SPNEGO directly in WebSphere. But you might want to support OTP/WebAuthn for external users which are not in your AD?]]>
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			<title>Migration issue on opnact when using dbt.jar</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/migration-issue-on-opnact-when-using-dbt-jar/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/migration-issue-on-opnact-when-using-dbt-jar/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:59:07 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[While I was migrating a Connections 7 on premises customer to our cloud using the dbt.jar tool, I came across the issue that the OPNACT database did not want to migrate, it threw an error on the OA_NODE table stating that the source table has 38 columns and the target one 37

The column that did not exist on the target was OWNERMEMBERUUID

Now the target database is a fresh cnx7 created database from the cnx7 scripts and the creation script does not contain this column. So I started looking through the database scripts to check what happened to that column over time.]]>
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			<title>How to perform a db2 redirected restore</title>
			<link>https://blog.ramsit.com/how-to-perform-a-db2-redirected-restore/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.ramsit.com/how-to-perform-a-db2-redirected-restore/</guid>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:58:01 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Wannes Rams</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Sometimes you need to restore db2 databases on a different machine. For example during on prem to cloud migrations, or when moving database servers during an upgrade for Connections. In most cases some of the paths will be different. The LOGPATH is gonna be your main issue. Goal of this post is to show you how to restore the database and change the LOGPATH setting inside the database you are restoring on the fly.]]>
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			<title>Huddo Boards &amp; Minio problems – Read before you restart!</title>
			<link>https://blog.martdj.nl/2022/11/19/huddo-boards-minio-problems-read-before-you-restart/</link>
			<guid>https://blog.martdj.nl/2022/11/19/huddo-boards-minio-problems-read-before-you-restart/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 02:06:06 -0600</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Martijn de Jong</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Last week I got the unpleasant surprise of a no longer working Huddo Boards for Component pack installation at a customer after I had rebooted my Kubernetes environment. I had to reboot this environment after I updated the Kubernetes certificates. Of course, after a change you immediately think that your problem is related to the change you just made, but in this case the only relation was with the restart, which means that this can happen to everyone running Huddo/Kudos Boards for Component pack or Huddo Boards Docker.]]>
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			<title>Update Elasticsearch certificates in Componentpack · stoeps</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/update-elasticsearch-certificates/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/update-elasticsearch-certificates/</guid>
			<pubDate>Mon, 5 Sep 2022 02:04:49 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[Elasticsearch in HCL Connections Componentpack is secured with Searchguard and needs certificates to work properly. These certificates are generated by bootstrap during the initial container deployment with helm.
These certificates are valid for 10 years (chain_ca.pem) or 2 years (elasticsearch*.pem) and stored in the Kubernetes secrets elasticsearch-secret, elasticsearch-7-secret. So when your HCL Connections deployment is running for 2 years, the certficates stop working.
The documentation on bootstrap is a little bit misleading and my suggested update does not make it into a technote or documentation update since nearly one year.
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			<title>Change spellchecking to hunspell in TinyMCE</title>
			<link>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/change-spellchecking-to-hunspell-in-tinymce/</link>
			<guid>https://stoeps.de/posts/2022/change-spellchecking-to-hunspell-in-tinymce/</guid>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:54:56 -0500</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Christoph Stoettner</dc:creator>
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				<![CDATA[The last years I had issues with application servers using large amount of CPU and even hanging application servers running the Tiny Spellchecking service. It ended with disabled spellchecking in the Tiny editors config.js.
Now after updating to the actual editor version TinyMCE 5.10.2 we decided to reenable the spellchecker and the first days it looked like, that the issue was really fixed. Sadly after about a week the first application server started to use 800% CPU just for the server hosting the spelling service.]]>
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