Author: Michael Urspringer

For many Connections administration tasks you need to specify which Connections configuration file you want to use by running a WSADMIN command like e.g. execfile(“activitiesAdmin.py”). If you have more than one Connections node this command will ask you on which

If you change the host name of your server or, as in my case, install as non-root user under Linux and therefore need to use non-standard ports like “8080” and “4430” in the URL for installing and then later switch

If you configure the Sharepoint Widget for IBM Connections as it is described in the Infocenter, then Communities which are migrated from IBM Connections 4.5 to 5.5 no longer show the Sharepoint Widget if one was configured in 4.5. The

IBM Connections 5.5  Cumulative Refresh 1 (CR1) has just been released. You can find the fix list here and the download here. Make sure you check the upgrade guide  and download also the required database upgrade scripts. In case you have

If you would like to create a custom theme fpr IBM COnnections 5.5 Communities according to the description in the Wiki, you need to keep the following in mind: The reference to the default theme files in the documentation is

In a Connections environment, where you have changed the permissions so that only authenticated users can use Connections (by setting all “reader” roles in all Websphere applications to “All Authenticated in Application’s Realm”), you are no longer able to use

This is a required update for IBM Connections 5.5, so please download and install this iFix from FixCentral. Make sure you have installed the other IBM Connections 5.5 iFixes as well (especially the prerequisite fixes  LO87330 and LO87487). Update 2016-02-17: