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Alfresco Community 3.2 and Active Directory integration

bmarkovic — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:54:07 GMT

Hi,New to Alfresco all in all so bare with me. I was testing/playing with Labs 3.0 but never really got anywhere because of the whole "million XMLs in a WAR" configuration nightmare. As I understand it has been improved quite in 3.2 with the new subsystems and configuration in tomcat/share but I'm n

Re: Alfresco Community 3.2 and Active Directory integration

bmarkovic — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:53:59 GMT

Ok still no reply, but I did get a bit further on my own.

Everything so far suggests that the proposed method of overriding properties using the paths (from wiki section on Configuring Subsystems) doesn't really work in my install, i.e. Alfresco does not read anything from my configuration files. I've triple-checked for grammar errors. Is there a syntax such that I can set these options in alfresco-global.properties since it obviously reads it, however for some reason authentication doesn't work this way, I'm assuming it's because default properties don't make it as they should to instances because they are globally defined.

Re: Alfresco Community 3.2 and Active Directory integration

dward — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:26:01 GMT

FYI it seems that the extension classpath based mechanism described here was broken in the v3.2 Community release

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Subsystems#Extension_classpath

See

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20069#p66374

A fix for this is in the latest community nightly build (14th July).

Re: Alfresco Community 3.2 and Active Directory integration

bmarkovic — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:57:31 GMT

How would one go about downloading this nightly build?

edit: Rude me, I forgot to say thank you for replying to my post, so here it is: Thank you, Dward, and please respond to this question as well when you find time.

Re: Alfresco Community 3.2 and Active Directory integration

mikeh — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:29:46 GMT

http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Alfresco Community 3.2 and Active Directory integration

bmarkovic — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:31:52 GMT

Thanks. Is there anything I have to bare in mind when rewriting this version over the old one (I intend to save the classpath folders, uninstall, then reinstall and restore folders)?