Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism where by a single action of user authentication and authorization can permit a user to access all computers and systems for which he has access permission, without the need to enter multiple passwords. While implementing SSO as part of one of our projects , we thought of protecting CQ5 author and...
In this post I'll talk about configuring LDAP with your AEM author instance. This is particularly useful within large enterprises where you would like to leverage the existing user profiles which are are typically maintained in LDAP. We are using the following software stack: CQ server - AEM 5.6.1 LDAP server - Apache DS 2.0.M15 ...
I am quite fond of the bulk editor feature of CQ and in the past I have used it quite often to quickly view and update content from within the Bulk editor console. Recently I found the need to refer to this "old friend" to make some quick content updates from within the Bulk editor console when I noticed something was not right. (I had...
If you want to make your CQ/AEM instance start on system boot in Windows Operating System, I am sure you will find a lot of documentation on that. Even Day (now Adobe) has a page on installing CQ as a Window service. But you will hardly find any page on making your CQ/AEM instance start on system boot in Linux Operating System. I was...
Installing dispatcher for AEM in Apache Web-server in Linux may get little tricky, as documentation provided by Adobe on Installation of Dispatcher in Linux is not sufficient, and if we take it in analogy and try doing same way we do in Windows, then we face some issues locating the appropriate files. Prerequisites for Dispatcher...
EVOLVE’13 - The Adobe CQ Community Technical Conference - a community-based 3-day event that ran from August 26-28th at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. The conference witnessed Marketing and IT VPs, Project Managers, CQ Architects, BAs and CQ/Java Developers from around the world. Myself, Ankur Mittal and Abhinit Bhatnagar attended...