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Lotus Connections 2.5 performance tuning articles

Lotus Connections 2.5 performance tuning articles on Edge Server, IHS, and WebSphere are listed below: <a href="/ldd/lcw...

Lotus Connections 2.5 deployment scenarios

The following deployment scenarios outline the steps that the IBM System Verification Test (SVT) team used to install, c...

Lotus Connections 2.5 security and SSO articles

This collection of articles describes the security features of Lotus Connections 2.5 and the Single Sign-On environments...

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Experience Lotus video collection

Watch this <strong>Experience Lotus</strong> collection of videos to help you see which Lotus product is best for your team, your project, and your goal. <p> <iframe src="http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/lotus/learn/experience_lotus/frameset.html" width="1280" height="1024"> </iframe> </p> ...

How to add pages to the home section

Michel Jonker | February 27, 2010 10:11:45 AM | Tags:

This article should describe how you can have more than one page in the home section of connections.   A use case for such extra pages would be department or business unit targetted landing pages, more structured than communities and more generic than myPage. A bit portal like, but without ...

Using and troubleshooting IBM Lotus Connections Update Installer 2.5

ZhengJun Song | February 24, 2010 8:58:18 PM | Tags:

This article describes how to use IBM® Lotus® Connections Update Installer 2.5 to install fixes (including interim fixes and fix packs) for Lotus Connections 2.x (including versions 2.0.1, 2.0.1.1, and 2.5). We also discuss the new features in version 2.5, the detailed steps to troubleshoot errors ...

Adding TripIt Blog Badge to Connections Blog Theme

David Greenstein | February 23, 2010 4:39:50 PM | Tags:

Introduction: We all receive requests from time to time to add a customization or enhancement to a system we support.  As a Lotus Connections administrator, I was asked to help some of my coworkers to add their TripIt Blog Badge to their Connections based Blog.  I documented the process, since ...

Lotus Connections 2.5 security and SSO articles

IBM | February 3, 2010 12:13:02 AM | Tags:

This collection of articles describes the security features of Lotus Connections 2.5 and the Single Sign-On environments in which it will operate. [[http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/connections-2.5-security-knowledge-transfer-1|Security knowledge transfer for Lotus Connections 2.5 (Part ...

Lotus Connections 2.5 deployment scenarios

IBM | February 2, 2010 9:03:05 AM | Tags:

The following deployment scenarios outline the steps that the IBM System Verification Test (SVT) team used to install, configure, and verify Lotus Connections 2.5 in both stand-alone and clustered environments. The SVT team tests in an environment that attempts to model as realistically as ...

S5: Configuring the LDAP server's SSL certificate in the WebSphere Application Server administrative console

IBM | January 31, 2010 10:19:57 PM | Tags:

To provide added security, you can enable SSL communication between the LDAP server and WebSphere Application Server, which is hosting Lotus Connections. To do so, follow these steps: Log in to the WebSphere Application Server administrative console. Select Security > SSL certificate and key ...

S5: Enabling Sametime awareness on Lotus Connections

IBM | January 31, 2010 10:16:58 PM | Tags:

This article describes how to set up Lotus Sametime awareness for the Profile business card. ==Profiles Usage== The Sametime WebKit API provide presence awareness in the Profile business card. Lotus Sametime presence awareness is also displayed in a user's profile in the Contact Information ...