This week on the podcast, Kyle recaps the Phire User Group meeting, his PTF talk, and shares a nice tip on integrating Usage Monitor with PTF scripts. Then, Dan and Kyle discuss the latest changes with HR Image 23 and PeopleTools 8.56 and forcing users to adopt new technologies. Show… Read More »#93 – Forced Adoption
PeopleTools 8.56 has been released. This week on the podcast we talk about new features in 8.56 that we are excited about and dive into some of the changes to Deployment Packages. Show Notes 8.56 is out! @ 2:00 Platform Changes @ 4:45 Fluid Changes @ 7:00 Event Mapping API?… Read More »#87 – PeopleTools 8.56
This is a short post, but hopefully helpful. I recently discovered that you can turn on Change Assistant with a debug mode using an environment variable. There is no documentation on this, but it seems to work well and might help you resolve any issues you have with Change Assistant.… Read More »Change Assistant Debug Mode
This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about planning PeopleTools and Catch-up projects, BI Publisher security, and how to turn off excessive BI Publisher logging. We also talk about slowly killing COBOL with PeopleSoft (it’s not dead yet) and using multiple Change Assistant installations. Show Notes Collaborate Sessions… Read More »#74 – Killing COBOL
One annoyance with Change Assistant (among a few) is that you have to start it “as Administrator”. If you don’t, you’ll get the message “Another instance of Change Assistant is already running” (even though it’s not). While running a program “as Administrator” is not hard, there is no reason why… Read More »Running Change Assistant without “as Administrator”
This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about a ransomware attack, load balancer health checks, applying POC patches and complain about minor annoyances in Change Assistant. Kyle shares a story about a misbehaving pagelet and how he investigated the issue. We want to make this podcast part of… Read More »#58 – Pagelets and Complaints
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,… Read More »#51 – Elastic{on}
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. We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration. If you have comments,… Read More »#45 – Go-Live Weekends
This week Kyle and Dan talk about scripting Change Assistant, DPK Patching and how many PeopleSoft customers plan on staying with the platform. The podcast ends with Dan sharing his Oh No! story about Go-Live passwords. We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration.… Read More »#43 – Go-Live Passwords
With PeopleTools 8.55, applying database PeopleTools patches with Change Assistant is easy to automate. In 8.54, Change Assistant gained the ability to apply patches from the command line. But with 8.55 and the PeopleTools Client DPK, the process is even better. There are three main steps to getting your PeopleTools… Read More »Automate PeopleTools Database Patches