DomainPatrol Social arrives at IBM Connect 2017

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Almost 2 months of 2017 has already zoomed by, time just seems to fly! Right now we are busy with last minute preparations before IBM Connect in San Francisco next week!
 



We are bringing a great new release of DomainPatrol Social to IBM Connect!


As you know, DomainPatrol Social is the best tool for administering IBM Connections, for moving and merging almost all content and managing users.

In our new release we are introducing Reports. You can now get detailed statistics about the usage of your IBM Connections environment. For example when a Community was last updated, how many active/inactive owners it has and the sizes of all components and widgets. You can see the usage of Personal Files, how many there are, last update, active/inactive owners etc. The same goes for Wikis, Activities, Blogs, CCM, Community Files and Forums.

Contact us if you would like a demo or a free trial in your own environment!

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Do you see even more in depth analysis of your IBM Connections environment? Then we recommend that you take a look at ConnectionsExpert from our strategic partner panagenda. It is the perfect complement to DomainPatrol Social.

Get continuous and accurate insight into user behavior in order to maximize the potential of your Connections environment.

 


 

Adoption

Increasing the adoption rate is a big challenge when introducing IBM Connections. ConnectionsExpert has been specifically designed to provide continuous usage and adoption insights.

It reveals approaches to accelerating adoption and is a great source for management reports.

 


 

Analytics

In powerful solutions like IBM Connections, it is not always easy to access, find or even be aware of all the important information one needs in order to utilize the system to its full potential. One of the focus areas of ConnectionsExpert is to perform analytics to reveal these nuggets of vital information, visualize them and make it easy to act on the findings.

 


 

Contact us if you are interested in either of our solutions! 

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SugarCRM IBM Notes plug-in, no questions asked

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Case:
I was involved in a SugarCRM project and one of the requirements was to rollout a widget to IBM Notes sidebar provided by Sugar.

Description:
Problem was that the instructions from Sugar included an option for the user to bail out of the installation,
because of the signatures where not trusted. also the user needs to cross certify with his own Notes id.
(https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Plug-ins/Lotus_Notes_Plug-in/Notes_Plugin_Installation_Guide_2/index.html)

From the project perspektive this was not OK.

Solution:
I needed to find a way to cross certify in advance, making the installation in the background without giving the user the option to bail out.
I wanted to cross certify with my organizational certifier instead and avoiding questions.

First problem was to find the certifiers.
What I did was to install the plug-in manually in my testenvironment:
I then took the RSA file located in the workspace\applications\eclipse\features catalog
and in the META-INF catalog there is a file called LPI.RSA.

Using OpenSSL using the command
"openssl pkcs7 -in LPI.RSA -print_certs -inform DER -out lpi.cer"
and then opening it in an editor you could se all of the certifiers.
Using the instructions from Sugar as a guideline I tried to cross certify the certificate
that was used by Sugar, which was:
CN=SugarCRM/OU=Software/OU=Digital ID Class 3 – Java Object Signing/O=SugarCRM/L=Cupertino/ST=California/C=US
but when trying to do that I got the message:
"A cross certificate will not be made due to key usage restrictions in the input certificate"

Found a discussion thread indicating that using crosscertification at a higher would do it
(https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/0/565f1122814572b3852579f900521ce0?OpenDocument)
so I imported the certificates into Domino Directory:

CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA/OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10/OU=VeriSign Trust Network/O=VeriSign, Inc./C=US
VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority – G5/(c) 2006 VeriSign, Inc. – For authorized use only/VeriSign Trust Network/VeriSign, Inc./US
https://knowledge.symantec.com/support/ssl-certificates-support/index?page=content&id=SO14649
https://www.symantec.com/content/dam/symantec/docs/other-resources/roots.zip

and crosscertified them with my Domino Organizational certifier instead, into Domino Directory.

I then pushed these 2 internet cross certificates out to the clients thru my security policy.

After that I included the widget in my widget catalog according to the instructions provided by Sugar and in this case we made a special desktop policy (explicit because it was in the cloud) that installed it for everyone belonging to a Domino group.

Worked perfectly.

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