diff --git a/src/main/java/com/merkle/oss/magnolia/testing/configuration/MagnoliaIntegrationTestInitializer.java b/src/main/java/com/merkle/oss/magnolia/testing/configuration/MagnoliaIntegrationTestInitializer.java
index b8185a6..3ee97a5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/merkle/oss/magnolia/testing/configuration/MagnoliaIntegrationTestInitializer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/merkle/oss/magnolia/testing/configuration/MagnoliaIntegrationTestInitializer.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package com.merkle.oss.magnolia.testing.configuration;
 
+import info.magnolia.cms.core.SystemProperty;
 import info.magnolia.cms.filters.MgnlMainFilter;
 import info.magnolia.cms.util.CustomFilterConfig;
 import info.magnolia.context.AbstractSystemContext;
@@ -59,6 +60,8 @@ public void init(final ExtensionContext extensionContext) throws Exception {
 
             final IntegrationTestMagnoliaConfigurationProperties properties = platformComponentProvider.newInstance(IntegrationTestMagnoliaConfigurationProperties.class, appRootDir);
             properties.init();
+            // Connect legacy properties to the MagnoliaConfigurationProperties object
+            SystemProperty.setMagnoliaConfigurationProperties(properties);
             //ConfigLoader.JAAS_PROPERTYNAME
             System.setProperty("java.security.auth.login.config", properties.getProperty("jaas.config"));
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/default-test-magnolia.properties b/src/main/resources/default-test-magnolia.properties
index 93c3430..50368d2 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/default-test-magnolia.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/default-test-magnolia.properties
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ magnolia.clusterid=test-01
 magnolia.password.manager.key.location=${magnolia.home}/password-manager-key
 magnolia.upload.tmpdir=${magnolia.home}/upload-tmp-dir
 magnolia.bootstrap.dir=WEB-INF/bootstrap/author WEB-INF/bootstrap/common
+magnolia.cache.startdir=cacheDir
+magnolia.author.key.location=authorKey
 
 jaas.config=classpath:/config/current-jaas.config