ECM + AI: achieving optimal synergy
Artificial intelligence is currently at the center of every IT discussion, and enterprise content management (ECM) is no exception.Vendors frequently promote the use of “AI-powered analytics,”...
View ArticleM-Files vs. SharePoint vs. Documentum vs. Alfresco: Which ECM Fits Your...
For over 15 years, I have been exploring the world of Enterprise Content Management (ECM). Although this sentence reminds me that I’m getting old, that’s not the point! Above all, I have accumulated a...
View ArticleAlfresco – Solr search result inconsistencies
We recently encountered an error at a customer’s site. Their Alfresco environment was behaving strangely.Sometimes the search results worked, and sometimes they did not get the expected results. The...
View ArticleAlfresco – When a JDBC driver breaks after years of stability
A customer recently contacted us regarding an issue with an old Alfresco Enterprise 4.2.2 environment. The system had been running stably for years, with a nightly restart of the Tomcat/Alfresco...
View ArticleAlfresco – Documents not searchable when uploaded via REST-API?
It’s a pretty common (and should be known) issue in Alfresco but even to this day, it still happens that enterprises contact us because of documents that cannot be found. The installation in question...
View ArticleAlfresco – Impact of SSL and LB on the import perf.
Have you ever wondered what is the impact of SSL communications or the impact of a specific Load Balancing mechanisms on the performance of your Alfresco environment? Alfresco (the Company at that...
View ArticleSelf-Signed SSL Certificate is blocked on Chrome or Edge
If you are using Self-Signed SSL Certificates and recently updated your Google Chrome / Edge browser, you might have come across a new kind of error, i.e: “ERR_SSL_KEY_USAGE_INCOMPATIBLE”. In my case,...
View ArticleAlfresco – Mass removal/cleanup of documents
At a customer, I recently had a case where a mass-import job was executed on an interface that, in the background, uses Alfresco for document and metadata storage. From the point of view of the...
View ArticleAlfresco – A never ending transformation
Beginning of the week, as I was working for our ServiceDesk (SLA support for our customers), I saw a few dozen mails generated by our monitoring over the weekend on a Production Alfresco 7.x Cluster...
View ArticleAlfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Play the game
In previous blogs (here & here), I talked about the Repository skeleton necessary and then about how to use REST-API to add questions and answers into Alfresco for the Trivia Game. In this third...
View ArticleAlfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Add questions
In a previous blog, I talked about using Alfresco to setup a simple Trivia Game and more specifically the Repository part of it, i.e., the meta-model and the structure I will use. In this second part,...
View ArticleAlfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Repository skeleton
Have you ever wondered how you could use Alfresco to run a Trivia Game? No? Strange, I believe that should be a very important question to ask yourself when you are looking for an ECM for your...
View ArticleHyland Summit 2023 – Düsseldorf
Introduction The event took place in a very pleasant street, the Königsallee, also known as the Kö, is a shopping street in Düsseldorf and considered to be the most beautiful avenue in Düsseldorf....
View ArticleMonitor Alfresco with Zabbix
In this blog post, I will share a few obstacles I have encountered while trying to monitor a complete Alfresco setup with all these components. As an overview, here are the templates I will use:...
View ArticleAlfresco – Removing JMX settings via the AttributeService since the Revert...
At a customer, I recently faced a problem with the JMX settings that couldn’t be reverted. If you already worked with Alfresco, you know that it’s possible to save configurations through the Alfresco...
View ArticleAlfresco – Documents are searchable only after 3min
I had a case at a customer recently where newly uploaded documents into Alfresco would always be searchable but only after 2min45s to 3min. The environment in question is an Alfresco Content Services...
View ArticleAlfresco – Share Clustering fail with ‘Ignored XML validation warning’, again
In a previous blog, I mentioned an issue that I faced when upgrading an Alfresco Content Services 5.2 to 6.1 on a VM with no internet access. The solution was simply to change one of the schema “URL”...
View ArticleAlfresco – Custom Share action not working after disabling WebDAV servlet
On an Alfresco upgrade project I was working on recently, I faced an interesting issue where post upgrade, one of my custom Share action wasn’t working anymore. This action was used to create folder...
View ArticleAlfresco – ActiveMQ not starting, blocking Alfresco
As already mentioned in a previous blog, ActiveMQ has been used in the scope of Alfresco since quite some time. Initially, as an optional component but then, it became mandatory. Just like for the...
View ArticleSolr Sharding – Shard creation
I wrote this blog in conjunction with the one about the Solr Sharding – Concepts & Methods a year ago and it was 95% completed but then I had other stuff to do and just forgot I didn’t publish it....
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