I've successfully done CQ 5.6.1 straight to AEM 6.5.Where are you seeing that you need to do an interim-upgrade to 6.2 first?

You'll need to leverage either the Image Transcoding Library, Camera RAW, ImageMagick, or PDF Rasterizer packages and make the necessary DAM Update Asset workflow model changes to process these file types.

Go to /system/console/osgi-installer and search for the config PID and you'll see ALL the instances and locations of configurations in use.OOTB configs are under the /launchpad path.If you have custom configs you'll see a config instance under /appsOnly ONE will be in the INSTALLED state. That is th...

6.2 relied on lazy loading, that's why things like Select All and Sorting sucked and only manipulated the first whatever number of elements that loaded.Good luck satisfying your requirement, you'd likely have better results selling the merits of a "select all" feature actually working as intended ra...

Must smash round peg in this square hole because "business requirements"

No that guy has no idea what he is taking about.Reverse replication is very simple to set up and conceptually works like this:1) The Author is configured to poll the Publish instances Outbox queue every X period of time (default 30 seconds)This is done by configuring the Reverse Replication agent on...

Dispatcher on Apache in a Windows environment is not supported.Dispatcher will only work on a Linux distroIf you're using a Windows Server you need to use IIS.

Core Components 2.5 was released 2-3 days ago, you can log an issue directly on their GITBut it looks like someone has already reported the same thing : Cannot add components to Accordion (6.4.2) · Issue #659 · adobe/aem-core-wcm-components · GitHub

That version of the Dispatcher module is old, you really should be on 4.3.2 not 4.2.3 See IIS section to pull the latest build: AEM Dispatcher Release Notes

Use OakRun to perform a consistentcy check on the lucene index definitions. This will create a report on the file system -- /indexing-result/index-consistency-check-report.txtYou will need a 1.8.x version of the oak-run JAR for thisjava -jar oak-run-1.8.x.jar index --segment --fds-path=crx-quickstar...