Check the updated version of this post here: UCF troubleshooting v2

Don’t we all love troubleshooting UCF problems? Here’s a quick list of common solutions to usual problems:

UCF installation paths:

• Windows XP: C:\Document and Settings\[user]\Documentum
• Windows Vista/7/8: C:\Users\[user]\Documentum
• Linux: ${home}/Documentum

Timeout/browser/jre problems:

• Check the supported environment tables in webtop/da release notes. Most JRE versions will work even when aren’t supported, but you’d better check if the supported version works.
• If not needed, disable ACS and BOCS.
• If using a proxy, add host’s IP and hostname to the proxy exceptions
• In case the UCF aplet cannot be installed, try disabling DEP protection
• Delete the local UCF installation and try a clean installation
• [Firefox] Check Java plugin is enabled. Mozilla automatically disables outdated JRE plugins.
• [IE] Check Sun/Oracle JRE is the default JRE, disable ActiveX filtering, and check Java plugins are enabled in the Manage Addons window.
• [IE/Firefox] If you are working with a 64 bit Operating System, check if you’re using a 32bit browser with 32bit JRE. 64 bit browser/JRE with UCF is probably a bad idea.
• [IE] Check Java integration with browsers is enabled.
• [Java control panel] Delete JRE caché
• [Java control panel] Disable the next generation Java plug-in.
• [Java control panel] Disable verification of mixed code security.
• [UCF configuration] If UCF keeps throwing a timeout, disable the IPv6 compatibility by changing the following line in ucf.installs.config.xml (located in ${Documentum_UCF}/ucf/config)

true”/> tofalse”/>

Manual installation:

• You can install the UCF applet in the client computer manually, just run the folowing bat script:

set DIRNAME=%~dp0%lib\
set URLDIR=%DIRNAME:\=/%
java -cp %DIRNAME%ucfinit.jar com.documentum.ucf.client.install.TestInstall "file:///%URLDIR%" "ucf.installer.config.xml"

This is the structure/files you need for this script to work (you can find these files in /wdk/contentXfer/):

UCFTestInstall.bat
\lib
\lib\ExJNIAPI.dll
\lib\ExJNIAPIGateway.jar
\lib\jacob.dll
\lib\jacob.jar
\lib\ucf-ca-office-auto.jar
\lib\ucf-client-installer.zip
\lib\ucf.installer.config.xml
\lib\ucfinit.jar
\lib\UCFWin32JNI.dl