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
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
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
This week, Dan and Kyle talk about testing different web server configurations, using the ACM for Elasticsearch, and how mobile browsers work with websites. Then, they discuss different ways to promote yourself and your position to a boss or organization. Show Notes VisualStudio Cod @ 1:00 Programmers File Editor PeopleSoft… Read More »#75 – Selling Yourself
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”
Encrypting passwords is a common activity for PeopleSoft administrators. For many of us, we take for granted that passwords are encrypted by the system. In this post, I want to look at password encryption for web server configuration files and how that works. Encrypting with pscipher pscipher is a PeopleTools… Read More »pscipher, psvault and Web Server Passwords
This week, Dan and Kyle talk about writing PTF tests for PeopleTools, running multiple IB domains and trying A CM again. Then, we revisit our strategies for managing PS_APP_HOME when applying selective maintenance. Show Notes DNC Hack Details @ 2:00 Vendor CVE List for 2016 @ 6:30 Migrating Event Mapping… Read More »#63 – Revisiting PS_APP_HOME