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Administering Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6.5 documentation. HCL 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.
Administering
Run 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.
Administering common areas
Administer the common areas of HCL Connections.
Customizing the deployment
Perform optional tasks to customize your HCL Connections deployment.
Exposing email addresses
Allow email addresses to be displayed in HCL Connections.

Administering Connections 6.5
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6.5 documentation. HCL 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.
- What's new in HCL Connections
  Find out about features that are new or updated in this release of HCL Connections.
- Product overview
  Learn how to deploy, customize, and administer the HCL Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install HCL Connections™, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Uninstalling HCL Connections
  Uninstall HCL Connections.
- Migrating and updating
  Migrate HCL Connections™ and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest deployment, interim fixes, or Cumulative Refresh (CR).
- Administering
  Run 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.
  - Administering common areas
    Administer the common areas of HCL Connections.
    - Administrator checklist
      Consider tasks that you might want to complete after you install HCL Connections and before users start using it.
    - Administration tools
      Use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration properties or run administrative commands.
    - System maintenance
      Make sure HCL Connections works properly in your particular environment.
    - Managing content
      Use superusers, moderation, and other methods to manage HCL Connections content.
    - Administering the Widget container
      The Widget Container is the HCL Connections-specific integration of the Common Rendering Engine, also known as the CRE.
    - Managing access
      Manage roles, credentials, users, and directories, and allow third-party access to HCL Connections data.
    - Managing external user access
      Manage the access that people from outside your organization (external users) have to your HCL Connections implementation.
    - Customizing the deployment
      Perform optional tasks to customize your HCL Connections deployment.
      - Hiding email addresses
        Configure HCL Connections to prevent email addresses from being displayed in the product to protect the privacy of your users.
      - Exposing email addresses
        Allow email addresses to be displayed in HCL Connections.
      - Enabling users to set a language preference
        By default, the HCL Connections user interface (UI) is displayed in the language that is identified in the locale settings of the web browser. You can set it up to allow users to explicitly select the language in which the product is displayed.
      - Changing application URLs
        Change the context root of URLs that point to HCL Connections applications.
      - Adding Sametime awareness though the Sametime client
        If you have an Sametime® 8.5.2 client or later and the Profiles application deployed, you can enable Sametime awareness in HCL Connections.
      - Adding Sametime® awareness through the Sametime® server
        If an Sametime® Proxy server is configured in your enterprise and the Profiles application is deployed, you can enable presence awareness and simple chats in HCL Connections.
      - Disabling applications
        You might decide to disable an application temporarily for maintenance or if, for example, you are deploying the product and the application is not yet ready for use.
      - Disabling the gallery and the grid view of files
        Disable the Gallery widget and Files grid view to prevent users selecting the thumbnail view of files.
      - Disabling microblogging
        You can remove microblogging functionality from your deployment by disabling the microblogging service reference in the LotusConnections-config.xml file. Microblogging is enabled by default in HCL Connections.
      - Disabling the social analytics service
        The social analytics widgets help users to discover how they are connected to other users and content, and suggest network contacts and content that might interest them. The social analytics service is enabled by default.
      - Adding or removing sections from the help system's table of contents
        If you installed a subset of the HCL Connections applications, remove the help files associated with the applications that you did not install from the help table of contents. If you add an application, or install HCL Connections Mail, you can add that product's help to the table of contents.
      - Customizing the number of @mentions suggestions
        Specify a custom number of suggestions that appear when you use @mentions.
    - URL Preview
      URL preview allows users decide quickly whether to follow a link by displaying a thumbnail preview for URLs.
  - Administering Activities
    Configure Activities to best meet the needs of your environment.
  - Administering Blogs
    Administer site-wide settings for Blogs from either the Blogs user interface or via the wsadmin client.
  - Administering Bookmarks
    You configure and administer Bookmarks using scripts accessed using the wsadmin client. Changes to Bookmarks configuration settings require a restart of the Bookmarks server before they take effect. Changes made using administrative commands take effect immediately.
  - Administering Communities
    Configure and administer Communities using scripts accessed using the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server wsadmin client.
  - Administering Files
    You administer Files using the wsadmin client to specify properties in a configuration file, or run administrative commands.
  - Administering Forums
    Administer Forums by specifying properties in a configuration file or running administrative commands.
  - Administering the Home page
    You can administer site-wide settings for the Home page from the Home page administration user interface or using the wsadmin client.
  - Administering Libraries
    A 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.
  - Administering Metrics
    Administer metrics in HCL Connections by modifying configuration settings, backing up data, and running commands to perform maintenance tasks.
  - Administering the News repository
    You administer the News repository using scripts accessed using the wsadmin client. Changes to News configuration settings require node synchronization and a restart of the Home page server before they take effect.
  - Administering Profiles
    Profiles provides two types of administrative capabilities: configuration settings and administrative commands. You change configuration settings and execute administrative commands by running scripts from the wsadmin command line.
  - Administering Search
    The Search service provides a point for performing full text and tag searches across all the deployed HCL Connections applications. Search is a required application for all HCL Connections applications, and it must be running to prevent unexpected behaviors in the other applications.
  - Administering Wikis
    Configure and administer Wikis by using the wsadmin client to run administrative commands or by editing the configuration file directly.
  - Administering Component Pack for Connections
    Monitor the services for Component Pack for HCL Connections™ and troubleshoot issues.
- Customizing
  Customize HCL Connections™ to fit your environment.
- Security
  HCL Connections™ provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
- Mobile
  See the HCL Connections™ Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with HCL Connections™ and how to use Connections Customizer to modify the Connections pages that are returned to users.
- Troubleshooting and support
  To isolate and resolve problems with your HCL products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your IBM® products, including HCL Connections™.

Exposing email addresses

Allow email addresses to be displayed in HCL Connections.

Before you begin

Complete this task only if you configured HCL Connections to prevent email addresses from being displayed. For more information, see Hiding email addresses.

About this task

If you configured HCL Connections to prevent email addresses from being displayed but now you want to allow email addresses to be displayed, complete this task.

Procedure

Open a command prompt and change to the following directory on the WebSphere® Application Server that hostsHCL Connections:
- AIX® or Linux™: /opt/IBM/Connections/ConfigEngine
- Microsoft™ Windows™: C:\IBM\Connections\ConfigEngine
Enter the following command to run the script that configures HCL Connections to display email addresses on each WebSphere® Application Server profile to which you installed an application:
- AIX® or Linux™:./ConfigEngine.sh action-expose-email > /tmp/expose_email.log 2>&1
- Microsoft™ Windows™:ConfigEngine.bat action-expose-email > D:/expose_email.log 2>&1
For example, on Windows™, enter the following command:
ConfigEngine.bat action-expose-email > D:/expose_email.log 2>&1
Add the email address references that were removed from user profiles.
Restart the servers.

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