The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast

This week on the podcast, Charlie Sinks joins us to talk about everything we learned at the Upper Midwest Regional User Group meeting. We talk about PeopleTools 8.56, changes in Lifecycle Management, Fluid adoption, Elasticsearch, Dan’s DPK session, and much more. Show Notes Benefits of the Roundtable @ 3:30 Roundtable Topics: Extending 9.1 Support @ 5:15 Current Versions of PeopleTools @ 6:30 Flu...

This week on the podcast we celebrate 1 year of podcasting with JR Bing. JR talked with us about his Vagabond project for managing PeopleSoft Images, how he uses RunDeck to simplify daily administration tasks, being a Mac user and using GitHub to manage projects and code. Show Notes JR Bing Intro @ 1:45 Vagabond @ 4:45 GitHub Repository Aria2 Download Library @ 14:30 RSS Feed Idea RunDeck  @...

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan record from the Elastic{on} Conference in Chicago. We attended the conference to learn more about Elasticsearch and the Elastic platform. The  tl;dr , we are excited about the future of the Elasticsearch and the Elastic ecosystem. We also talk about purging log files, Change Assistant and passwords, and sharing PSPing results. Show Notes Windows 2016 is...

This week on the podcast, Kyle gives a great overview Enterprise Manager and how he is using it for database refreshes and more. Dan and Kyle also discuss PeopleCode formatting, how they manage the xdo.cfg file and fixing CORS issues in PeopleTools 8.55. Show Notes SQL Developer DBA Connections  @ 1:15 Fixing CORS issues with Punchout  @ 2:45 PeopleCode Formatting @ 7:00 Code F...

This week on the podcast we interview Mark Danielson and talk about automating user security in PeopleSoft. Mark shares how he removed manual security changes from HR and Time and Labor. We finish the podcast talking about what makes good Admin’s and Developers.   Show Notes User Security Automation Workflow @ 5:00 Reducing Security Requests and Issues @ 16:00 Reporting and Auditing Security...

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about announcements from Oracle Open World. We hit the highlights for PeopleSoft Administrators and grade our predictions from last week. Dan also shares why Windows 95 was connecting to PeopleTools 8.55 environments. Show Notes Windows 95 Users?  @ 1:15 Elasticsearch/Kibana Graphs @ 6:00 psadmin Hidden Menu Follow-up @ 11:45 8.56 Release Date @ 13:...

This week, Dan and Kyle discuss decommissioning software that isn’t used, PeopleCode documentation pet-peeves and how to start using Puppet before upgrading to 8.55. We end the episode with predictions for OpenWorld 2016.   Show Notes OOW 2016 @ :30 psadmin.io Community Benefits @ 1:30 Hidden psadmin menu option @ 6:00 Elasticsearch Release Date Change  @ 8:00 Missing Trace Fil...

This week Dan talks about his 8.55 Go-Live weekend, simplifying patch download with getMOSPatch, and using Kyle’s Maintenance Backdoor. Then Kyle and Dan discuss strategies and tips to make Go-Live weekends successful. Show Notes Incognito Mode and Pinned Tabs @ :30 Instapaper Dan’s Live on 8.55 @ 3:30 Finance Image 20 w/ PTF Scripts @ 7:45 Tools Table Names Conventions @ 10:00 getMOSPatch Version...

This week on The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about the psadmin.io Stylesheets, Enterprise Manager 13c, and new portal behavior in recent PeopleTools patches. Then, Kyle shares his thoughts about possibly changing Operating Systems. Show Notes Enterprise Manager 13c and the PeopleSoft Plugin @ 4:30 psadmin.io Stylesheets  @ 19:00 Sasank’s Fluid Navigation Pitch  @...

This week Kyle and Dan talk about scripting Change Assistant, DPK Patching and how many PeopleSoft customers don’t plan on leaving the platform. The podcast ends with Dan sharing his Oh No! story about Go-Live passwords. Show Notes TextExpander Colton Fischer - 2 Factor Authentication with Event Mapping  @ 4:00 Change Assistant and Environment issues @ 5:30 Multiple Rows in PSDBOWNER @ 10:00...

This week we interview Andy Dorfman. Andy runs PeopleSoft on Windows Core and is an expert with PowerShell for server administration. He was fun to talk to and we learned a lot about running Windows with PeopleSoft.   Show Notes Andy’s Background with PeopleSoft 8 @ 1:45 Running PeopleSoft on Windows Core @ 6:00 PowerShell vs. DPK @ 10:00 Learning PowerShell @ 13:00 PowerShell: Invoke-Command...

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about PeopleSoft Myths, PowerShell Profiles and more features in Beyond Compare. Then we discuss the “left behind feeling” when hearing what other PS Admin’s are doing. Show Notes Oracle Search - SES - Page  @ 2:00 David Kurtz on Environment Variables and Tuxedo  @ 3:30 PowerShell Profiles  @ 6:00 Adopting PT Patches quicker @ 11:00 DPK Wi...

This week, Kyle interviews Sasank Vemana about User Interface development in PeopleSoft. Sasank presented at Reconnect and shared some great projects he’s done to improve the UI in PeopleSoft. Dan and Kyle also discuss uploading Customer Data into the PUM and how we arrange our monitors. Show Notes Web Profile issues with 8.55/Fluid @ 1:00 Disable Inline StyleSheets SublimeText Plugin @ 5:30 Subli...

This week on the podcast, Kyle gives a recap of the Reconnect 2016 conference. Some of the highlights we discuss are a PUM Success Story, how to adopt Fluid, and SAML 2.0. Dan and Kyle also discuss the new PeopleSoft Image Videos and using WLST with the DPK. Show Notes AMA Recap on the Community @ 1:00 HR Image 18 - Video Overview and Admin Impacts @ 3:00 DPK and WLST @ 6:15 Reconnect Recap @ 14:0...

This week we interview Nate Werner. Nate talks about many of the unique solutions he created to make this PeopleSoft environments secure, standardized and automated. We cover a lot of topics and Nate shows why he is a top-notch PS Admin! Show Notes Supporting CS and Integration Hub setup @ 3:00 Shibboleth and Oracle Traffic Director @ 7:30 Sign-in As @ 10:30 Experience with GH ERP Firewall @ 12:30...

This week, Dan and Kyle talk about Event Mapping, Report Node Validation, search App Packages, and the REN server. Show Notes Event Mapping Test Customization @ 1:30 Reconnect - Kyle will be there! @ 6:00 PeopleSoft and WAP/ADFS Presentation psadmin.io meetup at the Tuesday night reception Elasticsearch and Graph  @ 9:00 App Designer - Alt+0, Alt+1 @ 12:00 ELM Homepage Tabs @ 14:00 8.55 - Rep...

This week on The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast, Kyle updates his psadmin-plus project, Duncan Davies shares an “Oh No!” story, Dan talks about some custom Puppet modules he wrote, and we talk about Elasticsearch’s 8.55.10 release.   Show Notes psadmin.io Laptop Stickers  - $8 psadmin-plus updates  @ 2:30 SSL Best Practices  @ 10:00 Office 2016 with BI Publisher and ExcelToCI...

This week on the podcast, Dan uses an M&M analogy for network security, Kyle asks about SYS databases with the DPK, and we discuss if there are too many technologies used with the DPKs.   Show Notes Browser Cookie Delete Shortcut @ 1:30 XMLP and PSAESRV @ 6:30 Stop DPK WebLogic Install on Process Schedulers @ 9:30 Client Tools DPK Temp folder @ 17:30 Compare Reports in App Designer @ 20:3...

This week Kyle and Dan discuss the Diagnostic Plugin Framework, sourcing environment variables for PeopleTools, Kyle’s great new psadmin-plus project. Also, we find out who it a c:\temp person and who is a Desktop person. Show Notes Windows scripting - cd /D to change Directory w/ a path @ 1:00 Diagnostic Plugin Framework @ 5:00 List of all Plugins - 1488944...

This week on The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast, we discuss various ways to manage environment variables and a great package from Chris Malek to use with JSON files. Then we dig into using Puppet with PeopleTools 8.55 and how you can extend the DPK’s with your Puppet modules. Show Notes DPK Quickstart Course psadmin.io Community PIA Download to Excel @ 2:00 Bug 11611861 8.55 Validate button on R...

This week Dan gives a recap of the spring Upper Midwest Regional User Group meeting. The talks and roundtable discussions were great and we learned why PS_CUST_APP_HOME is gone in 8.55. Kyle and Dan also discuss IB development and the need for better App Class documentation.   Show Notes Fun Twitter Accounts @ :30  Sad Server Swift on Security Inconsistent Fluid Nav @ 3:45 IB Development...

This week on the podcast, we share a new trace analyzer tool, a great tip for managing Oracle Client versions, a fun game to learn VIM, and discovering the Oracle Cloud Migration DPK. Then we go in depth on the new features (and bugs) with Change Assistant 8.55. We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration. If you have comments, feedback, or topics you...

Karl Arao joins us this week to talk about Exadata. Karl gives a great introduction to Exadata and explains how it can benefit PeopleSoft applications. Show Notes Introduction to Exadata @ 2:00 Indexes @ 13:30 Migrating to an Exadata @15:30 Upgrading to 12c with Exadata @ 24:00 Value of Exadata @ 29:00 Exadata and PeopleSoft @ 34:00 Patching Exadata @ 37:00 Links Patching Exadata (888828.1) Follow...

This week Graham Smith joins us to talk about the PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture, the future of PeopleSoft and how the PeopleSoft Administrator role is changing. Show Notes SQL Server/Windows @ 3:00 Reaction to Changes in PeopleSoft @ 8:00 PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture @ 12:00 Why the PCA? @ 30:30 Graham’s Predictions about PeopleSoft @ 35:00 How the PS Admin role is changing @ 43:30