Where does the value lie in SDN: Tools or Information ?
A major system upgrade, with lots of your time and effort invested in it, lots of people waiting for it... And the go live is postponed at the last minute. My take on the SDN Upgrade delay. Dec. 11, 2011
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SAP Security at the Black Hat conference #sapadmin
Hype about Security vulnerabilities is damaging, because it focuses attention on inappropriate areas. However, SAP produces a lot of very complex code, and while they test the products as much as they can, security vulnerabilities do exist in shipped products.  Aug. 5, 2011
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#SAPADMIN and Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services have been certified as a platform for many SAP products. What are the differences between Cloud computing and 'real' hardware, what lessons have been learnt ? May. 25, 2011
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#sapadmin Netweaver and Windows 2008 R2
While 'resting between engagements', I've been practising my SAP skills by installing a Solution Manager system on a cloud host local to Australia. The target system was a Windows 2008 R2 system....  Mar. 22, 2011
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#SAPADMIN is more than SAP (Windows Event Viewer)
SAP provides various monitoring and diagnostic tools, but what happens if something prevents SAP from running in the first place ? Every Operating System provides useful ways, completely independent of SAP, of reporting status changes. For example, on Windows systems you can use ..... Mar. 21, 2011
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SAPCAR is SAPCAR ......
What can you do if SAPCAR won't decompress your CAR file ? Dec. 12, 2010
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A brief summary of SAP Tech Ed LV
It's obvious from SAP Tech Ed that it ain't your grand-dad's SAP any more.... Nov. 1, 2010
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The JAVA equivalents of the SAP* password, some history and a usefull tip.
As the SAP product has matured, 'breaking into' the system has become harder. For example, there's no concept of a 'standard default' for the JAVA equivalents of the SAP* user. How do you get into a system when you have lost the password or locked your user-id ? More importantly, how do you prevent the need for 'breaking into' the system in the first place ? Oct. 14, 2010
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BASIS at the Operating System - tp check all
For many developers generally working with SAP, the state of operating system and database are irrelevant - SAP is either working or it's not. For BASIS / Netweaver technicians, it's a bit different. An example of how I solved a problem with a kernel upgrade that wouldn't work because the existing kernel was (slightly) broken. Sep. 29, 2010
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ACHOOooooooo. ...
Behold !!! From the country next door to the country that bought you Russell Crow, Peter Jackson and the LOTR Trilogy ..... Martin English productions present .... Websites, Rugby (and Rugby Shirts), ...... ...... and Accordions !!!! Sep. 27, 2010
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Validating Passwords on Websites
A useful piece of javascript, to save in your bookmarks, for displaying password fields Jul. 1, 2010
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Transporting ABAP Objects from one Landscape to Another
I asked one of our BASIS Administrators to copy a suite of ABAP Programs from one landscape to another . This is how it's done. Apr. 24, 2010
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My second response to the SAP Certification 5 report....
My first response to the SAP Certification 5 report was about the neat Hugh Macleod poster. However, the paper deserves something a bit more. Please respond to the original at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/18849 Apr. 20, 2010
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Using SAP to create value for the business, at Mastering SAP Conference, Sydney, Australia
Content shared, people met, informal and formal networks formed and reinforced, friends made ...... It doesn't matter what part of SAP you work with, there was something for you at Mastering SAP.... Mar. 26, 2010
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How to email output from Background Jobs
How to email output from a background job .... Feb. 25, 2010
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Finding what tables and fields lie behind an SAP transaction
How do YOU go about finding the tables and fields a piece of data is stored in ? Especially when F1 points to an internal structure .... Jan. 13, 2010
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sharing source, open source, .... a license to copy ?
Once upon a time, before the Dinosaurs were told to go away and die, there was code sharing ..... Oct. 29, 2009
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Transaction SE16N vulnerability
Remove access to transaction SE16N from your production systems. Oct. 9, 2009
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Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
Does your Boss's schedule assist or disrupt your work ? Jul. 29, 2009
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SAP Mentor Nominations
SAP Mentor Nominations.... A blatant appeal to your self-interest. Jul. 20, 2009
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The SAP Availability Log
A basic metric for system-wide performance is up time, or system availability. Generally, this is absolute time less scheduled outages. There are many manual and automatic ways of tracking this, but one of the simplest, yet most accurate, for an SAP system is the available.log. Jul. 16, 2009
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Install SAP on Amazon Web Services #2 – the Installation
Run up an SAP system, backed by 150GB of DB2 data, without having to beg, steal or borrow the hardware .... I have created a public image on Amazon Web Services that can be used as the basis (sorry) for installing an SAP system on Windows. This blog details how to install an IDES system, using this public image and Amazon's EBS feature for persistent data. Jun. 30, 2009
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Install SAP on Amazon Web Services #1 – the Environment
In this post, I describe how I setup an Amazon Web Services windows environment to be used for installing SAP ABAP and Java stacks. I show how to: * identify the appropriate starting image, from those provided by Amazon * initiate and modify this environment, * save this environment In a subsequent post, I will describe how to: * setup persistent storage of the NW and DB2 installation, including database logging, * setup an environment suitable for using standard SAP and AWS functionality to support sustained (i.e. 24x7) operation of the SAP system * and finally, be able to (relatively painlessly) stop and start the SAP system and / or server without losss of persistent data. Jun. 22, 2009
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