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 @… Read More »#106 – Purging Cache
The third set of psadmin.conf videos are available! Security in an important part of administering PeopleSoft. Brad Carlson and Ruth Dodson share how to apply CPU patches in 21 days. Nate Werner discusses advanced security tools that admins should know about. Greg Wendt explains how the ERP Firewall can protect… Read More »psadmin.conf: Security
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 Configurator utility (spoiler: it’s great). Show Notes Episode 6 – TokenChpoken @ :30 Limit PeopleSoft Vulnerabilites PSEatCookies Web Filter ERPScan – Decrypting… Read More »#104 – Page and Field Configurator
This is a guest post by a PeopleSoft security researcher. PeopleSoft has introduced a new parameter on Node Definitions called the CheckTokenID. This parameter is required if you plan on using PeopleSoft Single Signon. In this post we will take a look at what exactly this Check Token feature is,… Read More »Understanding the Check Token ID in PeopleTools 8.56
This week on the podcast, Dan shares how to disable PSWATCHSRV and how the Fluid Navigator broke. Kyle finds a bug with Facter. Then Dan and Kyle discuss default build settings in App Designer and what is “safe by default” when building projects. Show Notes Psadmin.conf Thank You @ 3:30… Read More »#101 – Build Settings
In recent PeopleSoft Image updates, a new tool for implementing security changes was introduced. The Security Deployment tool simplifies the application of new security changes to your environment. But, the Security Deployment tool can be used to automate the application of custom security to your environments. In the video below,… Read More »Using Security Deployment with Custom Security
The Related Content Framework has been part of PeopleTools for a while (8.50 I think), but recently I have rediscovered how great this framework is. In the video below, I walk through two improvements I’ve made to the User Profile component using the Related Content Framework.
This week Brad Carlson from the University of Minnesota joins us to talk about some recent projects he worked on. Brad explains why and how they consolidated their PeopleSoft database, an IB Monitoring tool that was recently open-sourced, and how the U of M can deploy CPU patches in 21… Read More »#88 – Fast and Furious w/ Brad Carlson
This week, Kyle and Dan talk about using Vagrant snapshots with Vagabond, strategies for managing psft_customizations.yaml files and demonstrating Fluid to end users. Dan shares a story of how an unpatched WebLogic server can leave your PeopleSoft application vulnerable to hackers. Show Notes Securing the Oracle Listener @ 1:30 Vagabond… Read More »#80 – Apply Your CPU Patches!
We have talked on the podcast about different ways to apply CPU patches, but with the DPK we have another tool to help us quickly apply CPU patches. This post and video demo’s will show you how to use the DPK to quickly apply CPU patches to your servers. Deployment… Read More »Apply CPU Patches with Deployment Packages