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Update Elasticsearch certificates in Componentpack

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0200

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.

Connections Desktop Plugins Password Save Policy

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:00:00 +0200

During the latest automated deployment of the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft™ Windows™, I had issues activating the Password Save Policy. We wanted to disable the option that users can save passwords.

The documentation tells us, that the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\IBM\Social Connectors\Settings\Password Save Policy needs to be set to 1 to achieve this.

Show Community Create Button only to users with role "community-creator"

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:05:00 +0200

Since the update to the new HCL Connections Community Card-Based Overview (Connections 6.0 CR4) I search for a way to hide the button “Create Community” from users without the role “Community-Creator”. This was always possible in the earlier versions of Connections, but the button was shown always since the update.

During the year I mostly forgot about it, but yesterday I opened a case with HCL Connections Support and got immediatly following answer:

Create a printable and portable Connections Product Documentation

christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:22:01 +0000