Hello!
I have a question from a local IT Administrator Where I have no answer. I hope the community can help me.
When a user gets a new computer and there is also the Desktop Plugin installed, how can we move his settings for communities, peoples and so on to this new computer from the old one?
I hope there is to copy only config file 😉
Thank you in advance!
Andreas
Hi Andreas,
unfortunately there is no simple config file. But the registry is your friend here.
Open regedit and look for contents under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\IBM\Social Connectors\Servers\
For each configured server you will find a list of libraries (=communities).
Or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\IBM\Social Connectors
Here you will find the global settings for the plugins.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Daniel
Hi Andreas,
One more thing, I checked related registry. Please modify it accordingly before you imported into the new machine.
Such as:
LocalDir"="C:\\Users\\<USER_NAME>\\LFFiles\\Conn7\\BBA434AE-5D31-A93E-4825-86460028973D"
If USER_NAME is changed on new machine, please update it accordingly.
PS: for my local test environment, it is under:
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-474380057-18383TTTTTT-1581TTTTTT-118TT\Software\IBM\Social Connectors\Servers
If you find the Social Connectors is registered in this registry, please update "S-1-5-21-474380057-18383TTTTTT-1581TTTTTT-118TT" in the exported registry as well.
PS:PS:
The whole process would be:
1. Search "Social Connectors" in registry from old machine.
2. Export Servers section to a .reg file.
3. Install Connections desktop plugin on new machine.
4. Check user_name and Search "Social Connectors" in registry on new machine -- this will give you the latest information. Such as new user name, and related registry info.
5. Update exported reg file accordingly base on info you get from step 4.
6. Backup vanilla registry of Social Connectors on new machine.(in case there is something wrong, you can use this vanilla registry to roll back.)
7. Import this updated reg file(from step 5) into new machine.
8. Test and see if it works for end user.
Hope my update can help you a bit.
Thanks.
Rock