My presentation from IBM Connect 2016 with Mark Myers
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Off To Florida – Where I’ll Be
I’m sat here thinking about packing, I’ve also just rush ordered some headphones from Amazon for delivery tonight (PSB M4U 1 on a special sale deal), had a new IMuto charger delivered (20 quid bargain) and am constantly refreshing my weather app set to Orlando.. that must mean it’s nearly time to get on a plane and start my journey to IBM Connect
After 21 years it’s amazing everything still feels new and exciting but it’s a new location (the Hilton Orlando), I have lots of new content, a new co speaker (waves at Mark Myers) and I’m going to get to spend lots of time with some of you I never get to see.. so in case you want to see me here’s where I’ll be
Saturday
BALD (Bloggers meet up) – at least I think it’s happening at the Hilton around 3pm. Keep an eye on Bill Malchisky’s blog for more details.
Sunday
6pm Opening Showcase and Speedgeeking
7pm Welcome Reception
Monday
11.30am in Lake Eola A #1086
I will be presenting on security with Mark Myers (we may have to miss the last part of the keynote to make sure we’re in place in time)
Our session will focus on the recent SSL vulnerabilities and how to create and deploy a SHA2 certificate (#1086)
Tuesday
2.30pm in Florida 4 we are doing Spark Ideas #1120
This year I’m just hosting but we have some amazing speakers and content including
Theo Heselmans: Keeping Up – Explorations Into A Smarter World
Jamie Magee: The Urban Gardener
Mat Newman: Nurturing the Nerdy Child
Carolyn Pampino: Hearts wide open: Respecting our parents wishes
Chris Miller: When Three Weeks Changed Everything
Amanda Bauman: From shy girl to nerd girl in 7 weeks!
Lauren Maxwell: From Opera to IT: Career Improvisation and Unlikely Paths
Ginni Saini: Relocating From India to America – Choosing Change & Facing Challenges
5.15pm in Lake Mizell AB. How To Plan & Complete Your Connections Upgrade #1084
It’s the last session of the day before everyone heads to Universal for the party and I’ll be presenting on how to plan and complete a Connections upgrade including to 5.5 and its day 1 fixes. I’ve spent the past few weeks buiding new installs of 5.5 in labs and documenting it for Connections101 as well as discovering some surprises along the way..
Evening
Harry Potter @ Universal Studios
Wednesday
Jus’ hanging around the Hilton going to sessions and saying goodbye to people 🙂
I am trying not to organise too much ahead of time so make sure you reach out to me (email is best) if you’re around
See you there
Configuring Domino for SPNEGO
I was recently asked to put together a live demonstration for a customer on how they could use SPNEGO to access their web based Domino applications. To do that I opted to build a lab environment consisting of a Windows domain controller, a Windows based Domino server and a Windows 7 workstation so I could have a clean environment to present with.
Here is a modified copy of that presentation which will hopefully help you configure SPNEGO in your own environment.
Thank you to Sean Cull at Focul for clearing this presentation so I could share it.
If enough people are interested I would consider doing a webcast of this with a demo against my lab environment.
Adding External Users To Connections 5
Last week I did a presentation at Icon UK on the new Connections 5 feature that allows you to add external users into your Connections environment. To write the presentation I built my own environment multiple times using different techniques for adding external users and discovered some interesting stuff along the way. Since the presentation doesn’t have my commentary on it i’ll try and summarise that here
1. On page 6 are a list of things an external user can do according to IBM documentation. Some of the items on that page (in italics) actually didn’t, in any of my testing, work. This is because there are conflicting security limitations on what a user can’t do (see items in bold on page 7)
So for example although the documentation states that an external user can share files with people or communities, it also states that they can’t use type ahead or directory lookups. Preventing type ahead and directory lookups actually disables the ability to share files with a user since there’s no way to lookup a user. Sharing files with a Community works fine.
2. The external users can be added via an LDAP attribute from your LDAP server or by a separate LDAP server or branch. Although an entirely separate LDAP server is more secure and in my opinion preferable, it must use a search base which means flat names in Domino can’t be part of the external LDAP source.
To counteract this in one instance I faked a hierarchy as the users were created (using a simple Xpages app to allow people to self register and manage their own passwords and setting a fake hierarchical name for them in the background). In the other instance I used the same LDAP source as for internal users but with a specific attribute set to the word “external”
In general the external users feature has been locked down securely enough that i’d highly recommend it for inviting people to work with your Connections communities .
Icon UK Presentation – External Users in Connections 5
Today I am finishing my presentation for ICON UK on external users in Connections 5. There’s a lot to cover and I’m trying to run neither over or under time and pull off the goldilocks of presentations covering…
- How external access works
- What can external users do (and not do)
- How your internal users interact with external users
- Configuring external user access
- Securing the perimeter
- Implications and things to think about…
I’ll post the presentation here once I’m done but of course it won’t come with me talking over each page (is that good or bad?) – so if you can make it to Icon tomorrow at IBM South Bank in London, I hope to see you there. My session is at 11am.
Norway & ISBG
Last week I was in Norway at the ISBG conference in Larvik. You would know this if I hadn’t messed up publishing my blog entry talking about how much I was looking forward to going and what I was presenting on but I tried to set it to publish “in the future” and got the year wrong – so yeah.. I”m back!
At the bottom of this blog you’ll find links to my three presentations. Two of them are updates from ones I gave at Connect and the third is entirely new on how to configure Single Sign On / SAML / SPNEGO for your company. I had 45 minutes for that presentation and even abbreviated I ended up with 55 slides but I think it went well – except for the bit where I kept stepping forward to hear questions better and nearly fell off the front of the stage. You know the moment where one foot hangs in mid air and you desperately throw yourself backwards to stop falling forwards. That.
Any-who , this was only my 2nd trip to Norway and since last year it poured with rain the entire time I didn’t see much. This year we spent some of the weekend in Oslo by the harbour and walked, walked walked. A beautiful city and if you get a chance I highly recommend the Viking Ship Museum (get there early before the crowds as we did) and the Norwegian Folk Museum (thank you to Wencke Lorentzen for her guiding and the lefse ). The Folk Museum is huge and impossible to completely cover even if we had a whole day which we didn’t because we spent too long with the viking ships. A very interesting takeaway for me is that without any form of written communication there is very little understanding of how the vikings managed to survive, sail huge distances, find their way home and live each day – all we can is make a best guess. We also spent a long day walking, walking around Oslo which has some of the best public art I’ve seen (it was a gorgeous day so that helped the 9+ miles journey).
Oh and we ate some of the best food ever – if, like me, you love fish and especially raw fish and also cheese, and are happy for the waiter to bring out “whatever” until you say stop.. well Norway rocks 🙂
Thank you to the ISBG team for inviting me once more and everyone who attended.
Icon UK Presentations
Doesn’t time fly? Icon UK is already nearly two weeks’ behind us but here, finally , are my presentation slides. I did two presentations this year both with great presenters. My first one was with Mark Myers (who, despite having a genius brain, has not grasped that I understand very little of what he says regarding development). Our presentation was on how Administrators and Developers have to work together when doing Connections customisations and developments and was based on our experience working together on the SocialBizUG site. Our presentation is here and was a new idea we’re hoping people liked.
I also did a presentation with Paul which was an update on planning and preparing for Connections 4.5 installs, it’s aimed at anyone wanting to know what’s involved in deploying Connections or who is about to being an install themselves.
The Turtle Partnership Blog 