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Administering Connections V5.5Welcome to the IBM Connections V5.5 documentation. IBM Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
AdministeringRun administration and maintenance tasks to keep your environment up-to-date. For example, learn how to customize your deployment or how to use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration files. You can also schedule tasks, maintain application databases, moderate content, or manage users and their roles.
Disabling widgetsYou can disable widgets from displaying on the Home page or elsewhere in IBM® Connections when you no longer want them to be available to your users.
Editing widgetsEdit a widget to change its name, description, or deployment descriptor.
Removing widgetsIf a third-party widget is no longer used or needed, you can remove it from the widget catalog. You cannot remove IBM® Connections widgets from the catalog, you can only disable them.
Administering LibrariesA Library provides the services of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system to Communities. To enable the use of Libraries, you must make some configuration changes to Connections and to each ECM system that you plan to use.
Configuring the FileNet® deployment used by LibrariesFileNet® Content Platform Engine and FileNet® Collaboration Services are initially deployed and configured as part of the Connections Content Manager installation.
Managing anonymous access for a FileNet® deploymentIBM® Connections requires anonymous access to be set in FileNet® for public communities unless external users are part of a community, in which case anonymous access needs to be disabled.

Managing anonymous access for a FileNet deployment

IBM® Connections requires anonymous access to be set in FileNet® for public communities unless external users are part of a community, in which case anonymous access needs to be disabled.

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Configuring an anonymous user is required if you want users to access Connections Content Manager without authenticating. The installation process also prompts for an anonymous user, and if you entered an anonymous user account during the installation, anonymous access is already configured. These steps might be used to enable or disable anonymous access after the installation. In some cases, such as when desktop single-sign is enabled, or when roles in the communities application are restricted to limit access to authenticated users, setting up anonymous access for FileNet is optional. For more information, see Roles.

For more information, see Enabling anonymous access for a FileNet deployment.

If you want to allow external users to participate in your Connections communities, then anonymous needs to be disabled for Connections Content Manager.

For more information, see Disabling anonymous access.

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