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. We want to make this podcast part of the… Read More »#53 – UMRUG 2016 Fall Recap
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. We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration.… Read More »#44 – Changing Operating Systems
getMOSPatch is a great utility for downloading patches from Oracle Support. The utility will log into Oracle Support for you and download patches you supply. All you need is the patch number, and your MOS credentials. And, version 2 of getMOSPatch is written in Java, so you can use it… Read More »Simplify PeopleSoft Image Downloads
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. We want… Read More »#39 – Reconnect 2016 Recap
For those of you using the NativeOS Linux install for Update Images, you have probably come across this scenario. You start the DPK install and once you get to the Puppet installation section, the script comes to an abrupt end. What the heck! Looking in the log file, you quickly… Read More »Linux DPK: Dealing with Missing Required OS Packages
If you are using the VirtualBox DPK PeopleSoft Images, you may have noticed the Virtual Machine names are not descriptive. By default, the names use this pattern: SHELL_8_55_xx. This name is the PeopleTools version the image is based on, but it tells you nothing about the application release. I prefer… Read More »Renaming VirtualBox DPK Images
Wayne Fuller joins us this week to talk about running PeopleSoft in large environment. Wayne shared so much knowledge with us that we are breaking his interview into 2 parts. Dan and Kyle also talk about their experience with the Linux DPK and using the DPK for server maintenance. We… Read More »#18 – Large Scale PeopleSoft with Wayne Fuller (Part 1)
As we have discussed in part 1 and part 2 of this discussion, Oracle is now shipping PeopleSoft Images with 8.55 and Deployment Kits(DPKs). Dan and I have talked quite a bit about our experiences using these DPKs with VirtualBox and NativeOS installments on Windows, so naturally Linux is up… Read More »8.55 – Build PeopleSoft Images with DPKs (Part 3)
In Part 1, Fix NativeOS DPK Issues on Windows, we covered the service changes and TNS Listener change to resolve issues with the NativeOS DPK. But, I realized today that I approached the TNS Listener issue the “old way”. We are working with DPK’s now and there is a different… Read More »Fix NativeOS DPK Issues on Windows (Part 2)
The NativeOS DPK’s for PeopleSoft Images are a welcome change. With the NativeOS DPK, you can deploy the PeopleSoft Images on Windows. This is great news for PeopleSoft customers who run Windows; the PeopleSoft Image can be on the same platform as the rest of your systems. The DPK process… Read More »Fix NativeOS DPK Issues on Windows