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Here’s a little feature that some of you may find useful:  Collaboration Server 4.5 can send you an email if it can’t connect to the new Notification Service.  For those of you that have countless problems with the old Notification Server that shipped with Collab 4.2 and earlier, this is a must-have feature.
Just go to [...]

STILL working on Collab 4.5 RSS feeds…  Today’s tip will either be completely useless to you, or save you a ton of time.  If you ever see the following error:

collab.server.administrator CNS.SECURITY com.bea.notification.security.SecurityManagerUnable to authenticate user with token ‘1|1288135304|xarwmCj1FbIzv/Mo/yyd0tEjkgI=’

Don’t bother looking at the Security And Directory Service (really, what’s that thing for anyway?). The following screen [...]

In my (seemingly) never-ending quest to get Collaboration Notification working with 6.5, I ran into yet another error resulting in a ridiculous amount of diagnostic work.  The good news is that the error I was running into was a simple self-inflicted problem.  The bad news is there is an amazing lack of documentation about how [...]

I mentioned the ALI Interoperability Matrix (login required) in the Publisher 6.5 post, and realized that I don’t always go to the official site to check compatible versions of the Aqualogic stack; instead I just use a locally saved copy because it’s quicker to pull up. 
Obviously, the locally saved snapshot can get out of [...]

All right, admittedly, this is a little more low-level tool than we feature here, but I use this tool all the time and it proved indispensible in diagnosing the issue in my last post.  The tool is called FileMon, and is hugely valuable for diagnosing “File Not Found” or “File Permission” issues.  I’ve used it with [...]

On my journey to get ALI Collab Notification working for us again, I came across this little gem: as far as I can tell, ALI Collab Notifications are broken out of the box when using IIS 6 (or 7) because of IIS’s infinite security wisdom.
I just couldn’t get Collab Notification working, so I fired up [...]

Hm.  I was planning on doing a quick post on the new RSS feed in Collab 4.5 / Portal Notification Server 6.5, but apparently this is turning out to be a real pain.  We did our portal install as an in-place upgrade (which is bad; again, more details on 6.5 upgrades will come in the [...]

Oops – looks like this one slipped past QA:  Collab 4.5 ships with “INFO” set as the logging threshold, which isn’t that much of a problem in and of itself (aside from giant log files being generated).  But when INFO is turned on, Collab actually records the UNENCRYPTED password to the ptcollab\4.5\settings\logs\wrapper.log file:

The authentication ID [...]

Well, Oracle’s gift keeps givin’:  First, they published unlimited license keys for all ALUI products, and now, they’ve release maintenance packs for everything with all the licensing stripped out completely!
Go Oracle!
 
Update June 9, 2008: Sorry ladies and gents, I just spent the day trying to upgrade our dev environment here.  After downloading hundreds of megabytes [...]

My love for e-licensing at BEA, or lack thereof, was no secret.  I was mostly appalled as an employee when I was working at client sites – who completely trusted me with administrative access to their servers – and tried to get a license key.  Often this process took days, and occasionally took weeks.  In [...]