I have been using Liferay EE 6.1 with OpenLDAP the past few days, using different testing scenarios for functionality and determining pitfalls.  The goal was to test complete functionality, such as authentication, importing, exporting, and password policies, implemented at the same time. My LDAP directory contained a few key pieces of information: Users, Groups, and Password Policy ...
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We are seeing significant interest from our Portal clients in enabling Single Sign-On (SSO) not only within their enterprise, but also with their customers and partners. In some cases, this need is becoming an expectation of our clients' customers - in other cases, when our clients have their enterprise portal being used by hundreds and even thousands of their customers' employees, they do...
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Configuring Liferay 6.1 CE GA1 on JBoss 7.0.2 as a Managed Domain Well, Liferay 6.1 CE GA1 is out, and anyone who uses Liferay should be very excited. This release sports a bunch of new features, including significantly improved site staging and publishing, dynamic data lists, improved mobility/social capabilities, faceted search, the ability to connect to discrete document repositories,...
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Integrating Solr with Liferay 6.1 in a JBoss Managed Domain As a followup to my previous article detailing how to deploy Liferay in a Jboss managed domain, I decided that I should build on that and explain how to deploy the Apache Solr enterprise search engine to a separate node within the Jboss-managed domain. This will explain how to deploy the Solr web application to a separate server...
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I've been running into several issues lately doing a WebSphere Portal v6.0.1.1 migration to WebSphere Portal v6.1 on the same server.  This should be a relatively straightforward process as far as WebSphere Portal migrations go, but we've run into several issues that I wasn't able to find much or any info about.  Here are a few of the things I found while running the ...
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Overview This is a multi-part series of how to integrate Liferay v6.x with an existing Active Directory server at your organization.  It's a fairly simple process if you know what to enter into the various fields, but one key thing that doesn't come through on the configuration interface is that you will probably need to add a couple of properties to your portal-...
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