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David Pigman of SpearMC consulting presented Advanced PeopleSoft Security Audit. Most of the presentation consisted of walking through slides of the PeopleTools security table structures, along with some discussions of things to watch out for. Some examples included key field names that are different between tables (which means Query won't autojoin), decoding the ACTIONS field (which is a bitfield) into meaningful data, and understanding that PeopleTools like Data Mover, Application Designer, etc actually get secured by menu names (eg DATA_MOVER) that don't actually exist as menu definitions, but are hard-coded in…

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Paco Aubrejuan, the GM of the PeopleSoft business unit within Oracle delivered what I view as the PeopleSoft "State of the Union" address this afternoon. The session began with a quick summary of PeopleSoft 9.1 metrics (largely the same material as last year, except now looking backwards at it instead of forward). Paco got a show of hands from the packed room about who was on what release. A handful of stragglers on 8.8; most folks on 8.9 or 9.0 (evenly split). A few folks on 9.1 in the audience as…

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Hit this error message earlier and noticed that no search engines had the answer so I wanted to share. When running App Engine from a command prompt or from within App Designer, you get a dialog popping up with Your security options are set improperly. Please contact your security administrator. The same error does not popup when you login to App Designer or Query or other 2 tier tool though. The answer is that somehow you ended up with the PS_SERVER_CFG variable set in your current environment and psae.exe is getting confused as to whether it should be running under the process…

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  Oracle released PeopleTools 8.51 a few hours ago and the Grey Sparling download elves have been hard at work getting it loaded up into some test environments. They have definitely been busy in Pleasanton because there's lots of cool new stuff.We've scheduled two webinars for next week where we will have live demo environments and be providing our initial thoughts and analysis in advance of all of the great material that will be coming out the following week at Oracle OpenWorld. The first is on Wednesday, September 15 @ 10am PST (that's 1pm…

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When you create a domain for a PeopleSoft application server, the default configuration for the Tuxedo listener is a variable called %PS_MACH% (which expands to the hostname of the machine). When the domain is booted, the hostname is resolved into an IP address and that is what the Tuxedo listener will bind to. This is generally what you want for the most common scenarios, but there are cases where you want to change it. Binding to localhost I used to do lots of PeopleTools demos in the PeopleSoft corporate visit center when customers came…

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