Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer hangs while starting or shutting down

Anyone playing with the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer application on MAC (Catalina 10.15.1 (19B88))? Mine was working fine and suddenly stopped working. Starting the tool would take an unusually long time and quitting the app was futile. I had to force quit the app everytime. Going through the documentation revealed a small nugget. If you …

Create Loop device volumes on CentOS 7 from files

It has been a while since I wrote my previous article. The substance for this article came from the video on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd08qoOyTCA What was I trying to do: As a part of production docker configuration, I was playing with devicemapper storage drivers for creating a persistent storage area for containers. Docker documentation allows …

AEM 6.3 Sample Website We.Retail on Windows using Dispatcher on Apache HTTP Server has errors because of using colons in the URL

It has been a while since I last wrote my blog entry. Lots of changes have happened in my life over the last few years and this is not the time or place to rant. Introduction I have started playing with AEM a.k.a Adobe Experience Manager which is Adobe’s platinum Web content management platform. As …

After adding LDAP registry, WebSphere Portal throws JCR Exceptions when logged in as an LDAP User

This baffled me for 3 days ! Using all the usual documentation from IBM and tutorials on the Web, I successfully installed and configured Tivoli Directory Server. Imported all the Portal LDIF files along with some test data into Tivoli Directory Server Configured TDS as an additional LDAP to a Federated repository configuration within Portal. …

Foolproof way of transferring WebSphere Portal From Derby to DB2

Ok. I have seen several pieces of documentation on this. Lots of tutorials out there. However all of the sites and tutorials do not have all the steps mentioned clearly. I am trying to make this as comprehensive as possible. Try this on a Trial or test Portal Server, preferably a VM with a Snapshot …