The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast

This week on the podcast, Kyle talks about Push Notifications he built for Phire and how you could extend Phire. Dan explains the pt_password DPK Puppet Type, and Kyle discusses a leak of 2 billion passwords. Show Notes 2 Billion Passwords @ 1:00 pt_password Puppet Type @ 5:30 Kibana and PeopleSoft @ 12:15 Push Notifications and Phire @ 24:30 Andy Dorfman's Push Notifications Write-up Writing Push...

This week on the podcast, Dan shares a quick review on Classic Plus and tip when using App Designer. Then Kyle and Dan discuss how the Search Framework implements security on search results. Show Notes psadmin.conf Agenda @ 0:45 GreyHeller Interview with GitLab co-founder @ 4:15 Classic Plus Quick Review @ 7:45 App Designer Tip @ 14:30 Search Framework Security @ 16:00

This week on the podcast Dan and Kyle discuss Colton Fischer's Web Profile discovery, Kyle shares his CPU Patching process and how he automated the process then Dan discusses how he resolved a PIA domain bug. Show Notes Cryptomining Vulnerability and PS @ 1:00 Colton Fischer on Signon Page changes in the Web Profile @ 4:30 ps_patch Script @ 12:30 Apply CPU Patches with DPKs 8.56 PIA Domain Bug @ 2...

This week on the podcast, Kyle adds WLST commands to his DPK builds, Dan creates custom Facts with Ruby code and shares his Hiera Hashing configuration for building 8.56 environments. Show Notes Github Love @ 1:30 WLST and the DPK @ 3:30 Custom Facts @ 15:45 Hiera Hashing @ 24:00

That's right, its another Change Assistant episode. Dan shares some updates to Change Assistant in 8.56, some 8.57 speculation, and applying PeopleTools Upgrades headlessly. Kyle shares an ACM discovery, and the PeopleTools Idea Space updates. Show Notes VisualStudio Code PeopleSoft Plugin Follow-up @ 1:30 GitLab Plugin for VSCode @ 3:15 PeopleTools Idea Space @ 5:00 ACM PTSFAdministerRemoteSearch...

This week on the podcast, Kyle shares from follow-up on URLs and Metadata, Dan discusses Single Signon changes with PeopleTools 8.56, and Dan explains the concept EFFDT to an enterprise Java developer. Show Notes SuperBowl Follow-up @ 2:15 Easy REST Requests @ 4:30 ACM Library @ 5:45 Metadata and Recent Places @ 8:30 IDEA: Change Unified Nav elements to use Metadata versus absolute paths PeopleSof...

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about cloud provisioning tools and how they could work for PeopleSoft Admins, Mike Ripley's POC for securing WebLogic, and changes to the Change Assistant installation process. Show Notes LinuxFilter Proof of Concept for WebLogic @ 1:30 Insecure PeopleSoft Settings @ 6:00 Random Default Local Node Name @ 9:30 ps-terraform and working with cloud provision...

This week on the podcast Kyle shares a frustration with the lack of metadata used in Favorites and other content references. Dan discusses two ideas to improve development and the Portal Node configuration page. Show Notes The SuperBowl @ 1:30 David Kurtz on psappsrv.cfg settings @ 3:45 PeopleCode Syntax Highlighting in VS Code @ 5:30 Vagrant VS Code Plugin SQR Syntax Highlighting in VS Code Idea:...

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle discuss a WebLogic exploit used for currency mining, Dan revisits the Health Center in the latest PeopleSoft Images, and Kyle explains why you need to review the Invalid View project. Show Notes Crypto Currency Exploit on PeopleSoft Web Servers @ 1:30 How to make $250k on PeopleSoft without leaving home Weblogic and Monero miner Health Center with PeopleSoft...

This week on the podcast, Dan shares a new project called ps-terraform to help you build PeopleSoft Images on AWS. Kyle tries to resolve a Friday Night Ghost issue and Dan follows up on his love for Continuous Integration and the DPK. Show Notes Elasticsearch DPK Install Methods @ 1:00 GitLab Continuous Integration Follow-up @ 5:30 Friday Night Ghost @ 19:00 Ps-terraform @ 31:00

Announcing psadmin.conf 2018! The conference is May 6-8, 2018 in Minneapolis MN. psadmin.conf features talks and hands-on labs from expert PeopleSoft Administrators on a variety of topics. The conference will expand your knowledge of new PeopleSoft technologies and let you network with admins from around the country. If you want to speak at psadmin.conf, the Call for Presentations closes on Februa...

This week on the podcast, Kyle goes back to applying bundles and appreciates all the improvements to Change Assistant. Dan shares his research of "Slow PO Output" and what was really going on. Show Notes Meltdown and Spectre @ 2:00 Jim Marion's LCM Query for Event Mapping @ 7:30 eSupplier PO Output Slow? @ 10:00 Adding Event Mapping to CI @ 16:45 Graham's 5 thoughts on PeopleSoft Cloud Manager @ 1...

This week on the podcast, Kyle shares some changes and improvements to using Git with the Deployment Packages. Kyle and Dan also talk about Continuous Integration and how it can be used to test Deployment Package changes. Show Notes ERPScan - PS Security Configuration @ 1:45 Oracle Configuration Manager Event Mapping SQL @ 6:00 Git Workflows with Deployment Packages @ 8:15 Puppet Server R10k Gitla...

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss Bolt, a new tool from Puppet to run commands and scripts remotely on servers. Dan also talks about setting up a new Rundeck server and using Bolt with Rundeck. Show Notes David Kurtz's Epic nVision Blog Post @ 1:00 Puppet Discovery @ 4:00 Puppet Bolt @ 5:00 Fix RubyGems on Windows Hands-on Lab Rundeck (and Bolt) @ 16:20

This week Dan and Kyle walk through the psappsrv.cfg file and discuss how they have configured their application servers. Show Notes psappsrv.cfg @ 3:00

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan revisit the ACM (Automated Config Management). We discuss what the ACM is, how ACM works with the DPK, building custom ACM plugins and how to share ACM plugins. Show Notes Revisiting ACM @ 1:00 Using ACM with the Search Framework @ 5:00 ACM and the DPK @ 9:00 Building ACM Plugins @ 13:30 Plugins that are missing @ 21:45 GitHub Repository to Share ACM Plug-ins...

This week on the podcast, we share a database migration Oh No! story. Then Dan and Kyle talk about updates to the Vagabond and psadmin-plus projects. Show Notes Oh No! Story @ 1:45 Vagabond - Windows Support @ 6:00 psadmin-plus for Windows @ 20:30

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan share their strategies of how to deal with technical debt. Show Notes JoltandBleed Vulnerability @ 1:00 ERPScan - URLs to block @ 2:00 Technical Debt @ 3:00 Strategies to tackle technical debt @ 16:45

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle revisit their favorite tools and what has changed in the last two years. Show Notes VisualStudio Code and Vim @ 2:00 Git @ 5:30 GitLab Community Edition @ 7:00 psadmin.io GitHub Repository OneNote @ 10:31 Instiki Vagrant @ 13:15 Vagabond Trello @ 16:00 Linux Tools @ 18:30 watch nohup Inline commands Cmder @ 23:00 Powershell Modules @ 26:00 posh-git posh-ssh C...

This week Simon Chiu from the PeopleSoft UX Blog joins us to talk about his experiences with Interaction Hub, Unified Navigation, Push Push Notifications, Federated Search and the PeopleSoft Cloud Manager. Show Notes Introducing Simon @ 1:30 Using the Interaction Hub @ 4:45 Unified Navigation and the Interaction Hub @ 20:00 The good and bad of Push Notifications @ 32:45 Testing Federated Search @...

This week on the podcast, Kyle finds the ProcessRestartMemoryLimit does not work as expected, Dan finds that the Purge Cache command has changed in 8.56, and Kyle recaps a successful Go-Live for PeopleTools 8.55 and Fluid Navigation. Show Notes Page and Field CONFIGURATOR Follow-up @ 1:00 October CVE Details @ 6:00 Greg Kelley's CVE Breakdown CVE-2016-10366 Breakdown Understanding ProcessRestartMe...

This week on the podcast, Charlie Sinks joins us to talk about the Upper Midwest Regional User Group. We talk about using Agile with PeopleSoft, our experiences with Elasticearch, the Idea Space for PeopleTools, and using Git with PeopleSoft. Show Notes Chatbots Demo @ 3:30 Agile and PeopleSoft @ 11:00 SCRUM Kanban SAFE Elasticsearch Experiences @ 33:45 PeopleTools 8.56 Updates @ 43:30 Testing Eff...

This week on the podcast Dan and Kyle discuss an password vulnerability, learning VIM and migrating 2 Facter Auth devices. Then they review the new Page and Field Composer utility (spoiler: it's great). Show Notes Episode 6 - TokenChpoken @ :30 Limit PeopleSoft Vulnerabilites PSEatCookies Web Filter ERPScan - Decrypting PeopleSoft Passwords @ 3:45 pscipher, psvault and Web Server Passwords IDEA: P...

This week on the podcast, an All Star cast joins Dan and Kyle to recap OpenWorld 2017. Mike Ripley, Graham Smith, Sasank Vemana, Wayne Fuller, and Brad Carlson share their thoughts on announcements and sessions from OpenWorld. Show Notes Mike Ripley on Oracle 18c Announcements @ 2:00 The Future of Change Assistant @ 6:00 PeopleTools Platform Changes @ 15:00 Graham Smith on Cloud Manager's Value @...

This week on the podcast, Kyle talks about custom OEM metrics he built for Elasticsearch and Synchronous Services. Dan shares a WebSocket testing Utility. Then they discuss some big changes with Cloud Manager Image 5 and repurposing PSQCKSRV and PSQRYSRV services.   Show Notes Struts and WebLogic CVE @ 1:45 Branding Fluid Tiles @ 3:30 Cloud Manager Image 5 @ 8:00 Enabling Auto-Update in Cloud...