I got a call from one of my clients Friday trying to do a restore of one of their site collections from their dev to test site, but getting an error everytime they tried to do a restore. I jumped on a webex with them and watched them as they ran the powershell, Restore-SPSite. The command would throw an error – “The operation that you are attempting to perform cannot be completed successfully.  No content databases in the web application were available to store your site collection.  The existing content databases may have reached the maximum number of site collections, or be set to read-only, or be offline, or may already contain a copy of this site collection.  Create another content database for the Web application and then try the operation again”.

If you happen to come across this error, it is due to the fact that a restore of that site collection has already been done on the existing web application.  The workaround for this is to create a new content database for the web application, and restore the site collection to the new content database.

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Advanced Performance Tuning for WebSphere Portal Thu, May 23rd 2013 10:18a Glenn Kline Every customer I’ve worked with expects portal to perform well as it should. This inevitably requires tuning throughout every aspect of the solution deployed. There are a lot of knobs to turn, levers to pull and buttons to push during the tuning phase ranging from caching to pooling to JVM settings and much more. The final session at the 2013 IBM Exceptional Web Experienced conference was “Optimizing Your Portal Experience: Advanced Performance Tips and Techniques” delive [read] Keywords: collaboration ibm applications css database javascript portlet security server web 2.0 websphere websphere portal

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SAP and IBM WebSphere Portal working together Wed, May 22nd 2013 4:18p Mark Polly Integration is a long-standing requirement satisfied by enterprise portals. Over the past 10 years, integrating SAP and IBM WebSphere Portal has been top of mind for a lot of people. Marty Lechleider spoke at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference on the offerings IBM has for integration. Both IBM and SAP have multiple products, so Marty put them into buckets and described which products integrate with which products in each bucket. In fact, SAP has a portal and IBM has a portal. [read] Keywords: ibm application applications development enterprise integration interface mobile sap websphere websphere portal

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Considering Open Source Options for Your Portal Solution? Wed, May 22nd 2013 11:18a Glenn Kline Potential WebSphere Portal customers often consider whether they should leverage an open source technology or purchase a leading horrizontal portal product such as WebSphere Portal. The 2013 IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference had a session titled “Considering Open Source Options for Your Exceptional Web Experience Solution?: Explore TCO and How Free” delivered by Robert Lezon, East IMT Business Value Assessment Leader, IBM; Mary Byrd Nance, Executive Consultant, IBM. The s [read] Keywords: ibm community database development enterprise integration security websphere websphere portal

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Social Web Experiences at the Web Experience Conference Tue, May 21st 2013 11:15a Glenn Kline The IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference session “Social Web Experiences leveraging the Power of IBM Connections and WebSphere Portal” was delivered by Mac Guidera, Social Business Evangelist, IBM and Jon Brunn, IBM Connection Architect, IBM. The session focused on bringing WebSphere Portal and Connections together in a single cohesive solution leveraging the capabilities of both products to deliver unified customer or employee experience. Background The session started with [read] Keywords: administration connections ibm application community integration mac portlet websphere websphere portal

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2013 IBM Exceptional Web Experience Opening General Session Tue, May 21st 2013 9:15a Glenn Kline The 2013 IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference takes place from 5/20 to 5/23 and was kicked off by a Larry Bowden, Vice President, Portals and Digital Experience Software, with a overview of the progression of portals from 2001 to 2013. The session focused on IBM’s digital experience direction and how various technologies and concepts are converging today. Mobile, content and rich media, analytics, social, integration and cloud are at the heart of this of convergence. A few of [read] Keywords: connections ibm applications enterprise integration mobile portlet websphere

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Digital Asset Management in IBM Digital Experience Mon, May 20th 2013 10:14a Mark Polly I mentioned in a previous blog how IBM is integrating Digital Asset Management (DAM) into WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management. At the IBM Exceptional Web Conference, IBM’s Stephan Hepper is demoing this integration. The DAM is actually the MediaBeacon product and IBM and MediaiBeacon has created seamless integration between the products. By combining both products, you get a really great DAM solution in IBM’s flagship product. IBM is also planning to integrate this with [read] Keywords: connections ibm integration websphere websphere portal

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But Don’t Stalk Me Fri, May 10th 2013 6:21a Michael Porter Back in March, I mentioned a Global Survey Oracle did on customer experience. That’s been a hot topic of late in my world. As part of that survey, they continue to build off of the nuggets of information found in that survey. Emil Fernandez pointed me to an update on that survey that includes a video on millenials and how they wish to engage or be engaged. The short video highlights a few way they would prefer to engage. I found it hilarious that at about 45 seconds, one teenager say [read] Keywords: oracle

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Portal Beauty and the User Experience Thu, May 9th 2013 6:18a Michael Porter Dr. Marci Stochak-Chavez just posted an article on our health blog somewhat related to yesterday’s post. She focuses on whether beauty is in the eye of the beholder for a portal. In here article, she references a design a portal challenge in New York City. This challenge pushes contestants to create a nice interface while also using key standards like the Blue Button and the Direct Protocol to transmit medical records. Dr. Marci makes one quote it’s easy to agree with. I be [read] Keywords: interface

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If You Build a Patient Portal Why Won’t They Come? Wed, May 8th 2013 6:21a Michael Porter Joe Jacobellis, a member of the Design Experience team at a client pointed out this interesting article about patient portals by Steve Wilkins. It’s titled, “If You Build a Patient Portal Why Won’t They Come?“ Before you read it, let me give you some history: The Affordable Care Act mandates that all patients have access to their medical record (lab test, allergies, discharge instructions, etc.) In various stages, hospitals and clinics need to give you electronic acc [read] Keywords: community email integration mobile

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Salesforce Communities: The Portal is Dead…Long Live the Portal Thu, May 2nd 2013 6:18p Axel Newe Today Salesforce.com announced its long awaited release of Communities, which in Salesforce’s own words ended the era of legacy portal software. These are heady words, but Salesforce may have actually created something that is taking the portal concept into a different direction. The motor that is driving Communities is Chatter, Salesforce’s social collaboration platform. Salesforce.com used to have distinct offerings for Partner and Customer portals. With Communities, Partners, [read] Keywords: collaboration applications