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A use case can be formally defined as a list of steps defining interactions between a role and a system, to achieve a goal. However, if you haven’t written one yourself, you have at least heard the term somewhere. But exactly how useful are they when developing a product or defining a system process?  Without …

“Help! WCI is broken! I uploaded a Word .docx file into a Collaboration project, but no one can download it.” “What is going on? I spent days working on a new org chart using PowerPoint 2010, put it in Publisher, and created a Published Content portlet to allow users to download it in our HR …

Recently we found a client’s aging Publisher deployment started becoming forgetful. Well maybe not so much forgetful, but exhibiting the advanced symptoms of dementia! We were finding that free memory in their deployment was consistently finding itself hovering at about 1% of total memory. This fact lead us to continually bump up the maximum memory …

Among the core components of WebCenter Interaction (WCI) is its “notification engine.”  Users get notified via email or RSS feeds when information stored in the portal is updated. Typically, we subscribe to specific pieces of information we are interested in: e.g. collab projects, documents, discussion threads, tasks, etc. and then decide on the notification frequency: e.g. immediate, …

SharePoint has a pretty solid community of bloggers and tinkerers, so it’s not often that I come across an error that isn’t on three or four blogs already. During an upgrade of SharePoint 2010 to Service Pack 1, I ran into a generic error and had to go down the rabbit hole to discover where the …

As most web developers would attest, one of the most time consuming and challenging aspects of the job is to test and support your code across multiple browsers. A couple of years ago, one might have gone about testing with separate VMs that have different versions of browsers. Then along came tools such as IETester, …

Function1 is a Professional Services Partner to Splunk.  We have gathered a wealth of experience in conducting dozens of consulting engagements in conjunction with Splunk PS, and now we want to share some of our Best Practices with you. The most common growth of a Splunk deployment starts from a utility used by your Systems …

Apache httpd has been the workhorse of the internet for dozens of years. It’s easy to install and runs on pretty much every operating system. It might not be the latest, greatest and fastest of the web servers available today, but it definitely has proven to be stable and reliable. But, it’s not only useful …

Change is never easy, but acclimating to change that you are unprepared for, is even harder.  In the IT world, a standardized change management process ensures that there is minimal impact due to any changes that are imposed.  It is especially important to have the proper change management process in place because changes can affect …

Imagine a world where you don’t have to worry about handling authentication for different types of users of your application.  In modern day information technology, businesses want to interoperate with other businesses, and government organizations want to provide more integrated services to citizens.  However, different systems use different authentication systems and businesses want to integrate …