Recent by Klaus Bild 

Back after a looong Time, Hello World!  

By Klaus Bild | 1/26/19 3:08 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

It was quiet on this blog for a very long time. I was pretty busy in private and business life and lost my blogging/social media mojo completely. Doing a lot of new stuff recently and changing my job role I decided to start this blog over again but with some changes

Nagios plugins for IBM Connections  

By Klaus Bild | 11/11/15 2:56 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Back from a very successful Social Connections event in Stuttgart, more than 260 participants were there and I enjoyed every minute! Thx again the whole Soccnx team, the best event so far! My session was titled “How to monitor your IBM Connections environment with Python Scripts, JMeter and Nagios” which is pretty self explaining.

Ownerless IBM Connections Communities - Python Script for the rescue! (and you can use it as Nagios Plugin as well)  

By Klaus Bild | 8/24/15 6:56 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

We have a lot of ownerless IBM Connections Communities in our environment and I guess every Connections Admin faces this issue in his system. I haven’t created a python script for a while, so challenge accepted.

Check IBM Connections 5 DB Schema Versions with a script  

By Klaus Bild | 6/25/15 6:50 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Kenio Carvalho

The script will automatically detect your IBM Connections Version (5 Base, 5 CR1, 5 CR2) and will print all application DB versions.

IBM Connections and SPNEGO - AES256 and logout button  

By Klaus Bild | 5/21/15 6:41 PM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Kenio Carvalho

I’m right in a IBM Connections migration project for a large swiss customer and there I had to enable SPNEGO SSO with strong AES256 encryption.

Add a new Webserver to all IBM WebSphere Apps/Modules through python script  

By Klaus Bild | 12/23/14 7:24 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

If you define your Webserver in WebSphere before you install your applications the apps/modules will not be automatically mapped to this server. Same happens occasionally even if you have installed your apps before you Webserver.

My first Python Script for IBM Connections  

By Klaus Bild | 3/13/14 1:52 PM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

I will do a session on administration of IBM Connections and how scripts can help you doing this next week at BCCON in Hamburg with my good friend Christoph Stöttner. He is THE man on this topic and I managed to convince him that he needs me as a co-speaker. His only request was that I had to create a brand new python script, so here we go.

Business Card function for the IBM Connections Richtext Editor  

By Klaus Bild | 2/20/14 7:36 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Per Henrik Lausten

I already blogged on the topic of customizing the IBM Connections Richtext Editor and we showed an example of a Business Card plugin for the CKEditor which is used by IBM Connections during our IBM Connect Show’n Tell session. I promised to release the plugin on this blog so here we go:

Google Maps Widget for IBM Connections Profiles  

By Klaus Bild | 2/10/14 12:52 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We showed an example of a Google Maps Widget in our IBM Connect session in Orlando and we promised to publish the code on our blogs, so here we go.

Make Your IBM Connections Deployment Your Own: Customize It!  

By Klaus Bild | 2/3/14 1:10 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

We just finished our session on IBM Connections customization.

managed-settings.xml issue after IBM Sametime 9 upgrade | kbild's Blog  

By Klaus Bild | 11/27/13 10:52 AM | - | Added by Christian Güdemann

But recently I updated our IBM Sametime environment to Version 9 and the managed settings stopped working.

Customize it - Make IBM Connections look your way  

By Klaus Bild | 9/26/13 9:30 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I just finished my session at Dominopoint days in Milano and it is really a honor to be a part of this event! I want to share my slides with you and I’m open for comments or remarks, so please tell me if you think I should add/change some slides in future.

Google map link - IBM Connections Profile customization  

By Klaus Bild | 9/25/13 3:54 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Tomorrow I will give a session at the Dominopoint Days in Milano on customizing IBM Connections and there I will show a simple Profile customization example.

Example of IBM Connections Desktop Plug-in customisation  

By Klaus Bild | 9/23/13 7:28 AM | - | Added by Luis Benitez

The latest release of the IBM Connections Desktop Plug-in gives you the possibility to customise the branding strings and the images of the connector. [...]

Having fun with CMIS object types in IBM Connections  

By Klaus Bild | 8/27/13 12:28 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Niklas Heidloff

A part of my session at the Dominopoint Days 2013 in Milano will be on CMIS object types in Media galleries.

Did you know that there is a Search Admin page in IBM Connections?  

By Klaus Bild | 8/22/13 12:33 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Niklas Heidloff

To be honest I didn’t knew this and I always struggled with all these *not so* intuitive wsadmin commands to check my indexes.

Customize the IBM Connections Richtext Editor  

By Klaus Bild | 8/14/13 4:34 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The reading of some recent Blog posts on customizing the Richtext Editor of IBM Connections ...

How to upgrade Connections Content Manager to CR1  

By Klaus Bild | 7/12/13 1:07 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Recently I started to update our productional IBM Connections 4.5 environment to CR1 which was easy for the Connections part but rather complicated for the Filenet/CCM part.

Customization of the Next Gen Theme for IBM Connections  

By Klaus Bild | 7/8/13 12:15 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I just installed it on our production server but of course I had to customize it to our corporate needs. Unfortunately I had no luck doing this through changing CSS style definitions as described here.

Social Connections V in my hometown Zurich - Thank you!  

By Klaus Bild | 7/1/13 11:37 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Last friday it was my second time attending the Social Connections Event. This time the event took place in my hometown Zurich which of course was a special pleasure to me.

Parameters for your IBM Connections Reports  

By Klaus Bild | 6/27/13 12:48 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Niklas Heidloff

For my session “Give your Community Owners the Reports they really need!” at Social Connections in Zurich I started playing around with the Cognos Report Studio and created some custom reports. To use actual UI data in your reports you can use following parameters.

IBM Sametime & Connections Mobile Apps on iOS7  

By Klaus Bild | 6/12/13 12:38 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

The IBM Mobile Apps for Connections, Sametime & Traveler work on iOS7 and they look very nice!

Locking the Media Gallery in a Community – IBM Connections  

By Klaus Bild | 6/3/13 1:09 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

In a recent customer engagement I was asked how a Media Gallery can be locked so no further image upload is possible.

IBM Notes 9 & Sametime – preferred Chat window  

By Klaus Bild | 2/14/13 11:53 PM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

But of course you can change this behavior on your Sametime server, just add 1246 (Notes9 client type ID) to your VPS_PREFERRED_LOGIN_TYPES parameter in your Sametime.ini.

The new IBM Meetings App for the iPhone/iPad – Demo  

By Klaus Bild | 1/11/13 12:29 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

I almost overlooked the release of the new IBM Sametime Meetings for iOS app (aka IBM Sametime Meetings Viewer for iPad). The name of the app wasn’t the only thing that was changed, now the iPhone is a supported device and you can join Sametime meetings with your favorite phone.

Social Connections IV – A huge success  

By Klaus Bild | 12/4/12 12:39 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

Last friday it was my first time attending the Social Connections Event which was held in Amsterdam. It was already the 4th IBM Connections user group event and I had the honor to take part as a speaker. I held a technical session on upgrading Connections 3 to 4.

IBM Connections Mobile App demo on iPhone  

By Klaus Bild | 9/8/12 12:19 PM | - | Added by

This short movie shows how you can use the new IBM Connections Mobile 3.2 iOS app on your iPhone. Posted by business partner, Belsoft, AG.