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Integrating with other products
You can integrate HCL Connections applications with other products and features.
Installing integration plug-ins for HCL Connections
Access and update your Connections content from other applications.
HCL Connections for Mac
The HCL Connections for Mac supports features for you to share and access the latest version of an HCL Connections file.
Performing a silent installation
Administrators can silently upgrade or install HCL Connections for Mac from the Terminal application. User notification is disabled during the silent installation, except in error cases such as notification of failed prerequisites.

Integrating with other products
You can integrate HCL Connections applications with other products and features.
- Connections Engagement Center
  Connections Engagement Center provides the corporate office, management, and workforce with a single user experience for all communications, as well as a state of the art enterprise social collaboration features and the possibility of adding custom applications. All this runs at the office and on all mobile devices, so the entire workforce – from CEO to intern – can access this most valuable tool regardless of where they are, what their role is, or what devices they prefer.
- Installing integration plug-ins for HCL Connections
  Access and update your Connections content from other applications.
  - HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft™ Windows™
    Use the plug-ins to share files and information between Microsoft™ Windows™ applications and HCL Connections or Connections Multi-tenant.
  - HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft® Outlook
    The power of Connections from your Outlook inbox. Use the Connections Add-in for Microsoft® Outlook to work with Connections content from within your Outlook inbox.
  - HCL Connections for Mac
    The HCL Connections for Mac supports features for you to share and access the latest version of an HCL Connections file.
    - Performing a user installation
      Users can install HCL Connections for Mac following these steps.
    - Performing a silent installation
      Administrators can silently upgrade or install HCL Connections for Mac from the Terminal application. User notification is disabled during the silent installation, except in error cases such as notification of failed prerequisites.
    - Policies and preferences for HCL Connections for Mac
      Set preferences and policies to control how users interact with HCL Connections for Mac.
    - Uninstalling the HCL Connections for Mac plug-in
      Users can remove IBM® Connections for Mac following these steps.
    - Using file sync for HCL Connections for Mac
      Use HCL Connections for Mac to keep local files in sync with copies of those files on the server.
  - HCL Connections Plug-ins for HCL Notes
    Use the HCL Connections Plug-ins for HCL Notes to have easy access to Connections content from the Notes® sidebar.
- Using the HCL Connections desktop plug-ins for Microsoft™ Windows™
  Use this plug-in to upload and work with files in HCL Connections from Microsoft™ Windows™ Explorer and Microsoft Office.
- Using file sync for HCL Connections for Mac
  Use HCL Connections for Mac to keep local files in sync with copies of those files on the server.
- Using the Connections plug-in for Microsoft Office
  Use the plug-ins to share files and information between Microsoft™ Windows™ applications and HCL Connections or HCL Connections Cloud.
- Using Connections with Microsoft Teams
  Enabling support for Microsoft Teams integration with Connections is an optional task. Enable this support only if your organization is using Microsoft Teams.
- Using the HCL Connections Add-in for Microsoft™ Outlook
  The power of Connections from your Outlook inbox. Use the Connections Add-in for Microsoft™ Outlook to work with Connections content from within your Outlook inbox.
- Using the HCL Connections community app for Microsoft Sharepoint
  As a Microsoft SharePoint administrator you can register the Sharepoint app with Microsoft Azure and edit its configuration file in HCL Connections to make it available for your organization.
- Using plug-ins from HCL Connections with other products
  Get help using the plug-ins that integrate the capabilities of HCL Connections with other products.

Performing a silent installation

Administrators can silently upgrade or install HCL Connections for Mac from the Terminal application. User notification is disabled during the silent installation, except in error cases such as notification of failed prerequisites.

About this task

A silent installation uses the same installation program that the graphical user interface (GUI) version uses. However, instead of displaying a wizard interface, the silent installation reads all of your responses from parameters that you pass to the command line. In order for the installation to work successfully, you must run the silent installation from the directory where you extracted the plug-in files. You must be running OS X 10.8 or later.

Procedure

Download the plug-in from the HCL Connections Cloud
download package or from the IBM® Connections catalog at the following website:https://xspy.mybluemix.net/.
Extract the file.
Open a Terminal window and navigate to the directory where you saved IBMConnectionsMac.pkg.
Type sudo Installer -pkg <package name> -target <destination volume>.