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Configure Kerberos / SPNEGO with Connections

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:00:00 +0200

The HCL Connections documentation describes the process for configuring Windows desktop single-sign-on in a somewhat complicated way. Here are the necessary steps for setting up with the highest possible encryption.

Indefinitely growing homepage.sr_index_docs table and forgotten search nodes

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:30:00 +0100

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.

Fix some annoyances with Customizer

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0200

I created a git repository with some smaller CSS files to fix some annoyances within HCL Connections.

I started with this to prevent Orient Me to load fonts from external URLs or Elasticsearch Metrics to break the UI on larger screens. These issues are solved after the last updates I got from support, but Blogs and Tailored Experience Wizard can be improved with some simple rules.