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In a recent Identity Management project I found myself reading information from an HR system via JDBC, then needing to write it into the Identity Vault. From there it would disperse to other systems, one of which was GroupWise.

The HR system stored all information in a capitalised fashion. It's quite obviously undesirable for all entries in a GroupWise address book to be capitalised, so I needed to transform the data. Read on to see how the data transformation was done.

When following this knowledgebase article to upgrade your SLES or OES server, be sure to bear in mind that the upgrade will overwrite any customisation that you've done in /boot.

There are a few situations where this might be important to you. Here's one.

In most corporate environments web proxies are implemented as part of an overall security requirement. When implementing a SLES server it is just as important, from a security standpoint, to keep the server patched up to date. Being able to set the server to register and update from the command line did not seem possible until I discovered the following method. Read on to see how it's done.

It appears that there is some traction for OpenXDAS...

I spent yesterday afternoon and most of the evening trying to get the PHP rrdtool extension working on SLES 10 SP1 to no avail. While I could compile the extension, when I added it to the appropriate directory and configured the php.ini file it just didn't seem to pick it up....

I've been doing some looking around at Squid add-ons for the first time in a long time. It appears that they've thinned out dramatically!

I'm specifically looking for a quota management tool which is compatible with a Squid/Dansguardian configuration. If need be, integration to just plain squid will do.