With the release of Alfresco 4.0 we have seen a great deal of changes with the inner workings of Alfresco by bringing in Apache Solr and also the modification in share that increases the usability even further.

Here are some of the main highlights from Alfresco 4.0

• Drag and Drop Features
  This means you can drag and drop content from anywhere between the repository and even from your desktop.
• Social Features (twitter/youtube/facebook)
  You can like a piece of content right from Alfresco Share and other fun things with other social media sites.

Alfresco: 3.4.4 enterprise
OS: RHEL 6.1 x86_64

In one of my projects, Bulk Import web script is used for importing files from an existing CMS to Alfresco. As the import process takes days to complete for over 100G data, VisualVM is used for monitoring the JVM performance of Alfresco. I am especially interested in monitoring the cpu and heap usage.

Here is what you need to do:

Add the following JMX setting to ${ALFRESCO_HOME}/tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh

I have found we can send outbound email in Alfresco via Google's SMTP server (smtp.gmail.com).

According to Google 's SMTP server uses TTLS encryption, it is a matter of configuring the JavaMail to use TTLS.

Alfresco version: 3.4.4 enterprise edition.

Step 1. modifying ${ALFRESCO_HOME}/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties as below.

mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.port=587
mail.username=<your gmail username>
mail.password=<your gmail password>
mail.protocol=smtp

If you have an Apple product like an iPod touch, iPhone or iPad, and you haven't downloaded the new Alfresco Mobile for your Alfresco ECM you are living in the stone age. Alfresco not long ago released it's mobile edition to the world and I must say I am impressed with it. Yes, nowadays the computers are getting smaller and it may not be such a big deal to bring a laptop or a netbook anymore, but it still quite convenient to have your document repository at the palm of your hands.

What I really like about this app are
- able to connect to my document repository on my mobile device

Canopy seamlessly integrates the power of Drupal and Alfresco delivering a web and intranet platform that can handle both web and document management requirements. It combines the flexibility of Drupal as a front end web development platform with the power of Alfresco as an Enterprise content management and workflow system.

For the current version of Canopy, a Drupal-Alfresco integration, has been extended to also integrate with Google Docs. It is important in some cases to share document but want to avoid the hassle of registering an account in Alfresco to view/edit one document. One way could be integrating the document to be edited in Google docs.

Configuration Notes
The two configuration files that require modification are:
1. Share Properties Files

You have to edit a couple of things when you want multiple instances of Alfresco running on the same machine

1. Modify Alfresco and FTP port in alfresco-global.properties ({alfresco}/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties)

This is done so that Alfresco internal knows how to connect to itself.

web.application.context.url=http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco

Modify the port number, 8080 in the example above, to something other than 8080 or the default port any other instance are using.

Then change the FTP port used by Alfresco

### FTP Server Configuration ###