Who You Calling A Jesse?

Just a short note and a major annoyance with Contribute Publishing Server that had me in a near swearing fit last night. If you are using CPS with LDAP and you change your email address, CPS no longer knows who you are. You can still connect to CPS but it manages the sites according to the email address not the userid in front of the @. Something to be mindful of on a large scale CPS deployment if staff email changes.

After switching jobs my LDAP/ADS stored email goes to a different server on campus. My main @uwaterloo.ca still works but it goes to a different local server which is in my LDAP/ADS entry. That local server is what CPS is hooked on. So what happens is I load Contribute, it connects to CPS, but I have no sites. I have no idea why either, no error, no nothing.

I had to switch my ADS info back to the old server (that I still have access to) so all my @uwaterloo email goes there while I use Contribute. Then switch it back again. As of now I can’t figure out how to change sites gracefully.

%#$*@ that is annoying. This could be documented elsewhere but for my sake I am mentioning it here.