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• Authentication vs. Authorization
  When ever I talk to customers and partners about single-sign-on (SSO) and the concepts of "authentication" I'm quite often baffled by the level of misunderstanding, misconception and lack of knowledge about just how "authentication" works. Now the reason ...
• Just arrived - thank you IBM
  Tags : champion, ibm, ibm_champion
• Websphere Application Server WIM LDAP adapter log trace
  When debugging LDAP login issues for Websphere Application Server (WAS) you're actually debugging the WIM (Websphere Identity Manager) part of WAS. The actual login piece is part of the adapters (database, ldap, file) which is the repository specific ...
• Setting up LDAP failover for Websphere Application Server
  As you may know LDAP is crucial to Websphere Application Server (WAS) when using it for IBM Connections so it makes good sense to configure failover for LDAP. If the LDAP server becomes unavailable you can no longer log in (actually you can't even log ...
• Looking up a datasource from an IBM Connections event handler
  For a customer project I'm working on these days I'm writing an event handler for IBM Connections Profiles to integrate two profile systems in real-time using the IBM Connections 4.0 Event SPI. Pretty powerful stuff in case you've never looked into it. ...
• Fixing IBM Connections help for IE users
  At a customer site they were actually using the IBM Connections help documents (a first I know) but it didn't work for the users in Internet Explorer. After some research it turned out to be due to a missing compatability statement in the generated HTML ...
• Hiding the Social Mail username and password from socialmail-discovery-config.xml
  It's been bothering me a while that the username and password for our LDAP user was visible in clear text in our socialmail-discovery...
• There's a new sheriff in town
  Last week was the annual BLUG event this time in Leuven, Belgium, and as always Theo and team created an amazing event. The BLUG event is now the biggest user group in the a World with a staggering 325 attendes and it really makes BLUG a mini-Connect ...

• Re: Hide the Getting started page
  I tried both. Using a policy I can successfully push the required setting to the client. However, the Getting Started page launches BEFORE the policy is applied... That leaves only the plugin_customization as a valid alternative (which worked for me).
• Re: Configure Eclipse 4.2 (Juno) for Notes 9
  HiMikkel, thank you very much for your tutorial. I am trying to set it up on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04). Everything seems to be the same except for the pathnames using a / instead of a \. However when Itry to run it Iget a lot of error messages in the ...
• Re: C API guru help needed!
  When script length64K,How get whole script?
• Re: Authentication vs. Authorization
  I find myself banging that drum from time to time too. Good post sir.
• It is WHO your are vs. WHAT you can do
  I usually use the passport example: Show me your passport: Person1: Ah you are John Doe, a citizen- Authentication Person 2: ah you are Frank Foreign, a visitor. - Authentication Then: Citizen: You have the right to vote, stay as long as you want ...
• Re: Setting table row height in SWT
  Not that I know of. In effect it's the underlying OS widget you're using so I guess not.
• Re: Setting table row height in SWT
  Is there any way by which i can change the color of the Grid Line Seperator between the rows?
• Re: Hiding the Social Mail username and password from socialmail-discovery-config.xml
  Strangely I cover that in some slides I just made for the credstore and OpenSocial deployment as a way to secure your environment better.
• Re: There's a new sheriff in town
  We caught the keynote on film and it is in edit now. Should be out and ready by Monday. The missing tripod caused some grief but I am making adjustments in edit
• Re: There's a new sheriff in town
  Let us all hope that Scott will not turn out to be one of those "shoot from the hip" types. But I don't think so. Great guy, great start!