Portal Anonymous User Concept

I guarantee, that you can have the named anonymous users defined correctly based on the explanation given below:
I have done this too many times on several SPS levels and this concept has its own history.....so trust me on the below tips...


The concept of named anonymous user has always been a topic of discussion in the forums...here are some tips on this topic

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SAP Web Dispatcher and Enterprise Portal SSL (Part - II)

This is the second part of the series...read the first part published on Nov 9th 2008

SAP Web Dispatcher and Enterprise Portal(Part - I)

Here is a detailed description of configuring SSL on Enterprise Portal

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SAP Portal Hotline !

"The best learning comes from collaboration"

The above statement has always been my motto for a long time and this time I am taking it one step higher !

We as SAP professionals need to collaborate for faster solutions. Currently we have Blogs, Forums, Emails, Podcasts, E-learning, Articles, Chat messages and lately Google Wave…the list goes on.
Sometimes we only wish we can talk to the other person and be more expressive about our work…….

The day has come and I am going to introduce for the first time (I was told), the first ever SAP PORTAL HOTLINE!

Google Voice has revolutionized the art of collaborating by allowing us to have a conversation with our fellow experts and hopefully inspire more people to get hooked on to Google Voice and place the Widget on their BlogSpot and call each other if there is a CRISIS during production support or handle a crazy project manager trying to kill you to resolve a technical issue in SAP or in general have a meaningful conversation!

If you have a question regarding SAP Portal click on the Call Me button under the title SAP Portal Hotline and leave a message regarding your question and if you are one of those folks living in the US of A, I can get back to you with a phone call if you leave your phone number in the message. I could have taken calls but I can only imagine my phone ringing all the time. Hence I will start with “Leave a Message” and soon open my phone to ring……here is my Google Voice Number: (201) 357-0516
(Remember to use your headset on your computer to leave a message)

Internet Explorer 8 : NOT SUITED for SAP PORTAL

I have mentioned this a million times and I will repeat it again.....MOVE ON !

Internet explorer is a primitive tool, learn to accept change, accept new browsers especially CHROME ! sometimes i think of staging a protest until SAP realizes the idea of change and move on with something more faster than Internet Explorer...below is some research on how internet explorer SUCKS !

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service.sap.com/PAM explains the support of IE8 on SAP Portal...here is a picture

Portal Landscape Question

Lately I've been getting a lot of emails on questions regarding Portal Landscape concepts and i felt i should share it with you readers ...below is one of those questions and my reply:

Hi Rahul,
I have been reading through your blog on The Cloak and Dagger about Portal and BI Connectivity.We are on SAP NW 7.0(SR1)-BI 7.0 usage types ABAP+Java. We are planning to go for EP with BI Environment. As of now we have three options in our Current scenario.
1) Building EP on the existing environment (ABAP+JAVA).
2) Fresh installation of EP which requires additional hardware.
3) We are alredy using EP for ESS, can we integrate the existing EP (ESS) with BI.
Currently our BI Portal internal portal is running on BSP+WEB Dispatcher+ICM functionality.Please suggest on how to go forward with the scenario's above. Also, suggest the major advantages of integrating EP with BI.


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DO NOT HACK your SAP system : SE16N threats

(WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS IN YOUR PRODUCTION SYSTEM)
Follow these simple steps to hack SAP.

1. Execute tcode SE16N.
2. Type &SAP_EDIT into the command field and press enter.
3. Enter any standard SAP table: VBAK for example and hit F8.
4. You can now edit and change data in the table and you can also delete rows and columns.
Ok, now you know that you can always catch that culprit and put him in a sack and bury him in the backyard for doing this insane HACK! Guess what.....The changes that are made using this command prompt WILL NOT BE STORED IN THE CHANGE DOCUMENT TABLES: SE16N_CD_KEY: Change Documents – Header and SE16N_CD_DATA : Change Documents – Data
But wait a second………………HELLO! what’s the point when he/she has already screwed your database and consider this guy is pissed off with the management for some reason and wants to screw the company and implements this simple HACK …….TOO LATE buddy !

How about that SAP ???

So my dear blog fans, immediately tell the folks in your company to remove this t-code (SE16N) access in the production system ….use SE16 instead!!

Ways to control this situation and RISK factors ....CLICK HERE

SAP Business Objects Explorer

This is definitely the first blog which is drifting away from SAP portal but this is the future web application for analyzing data ! SAP BEx could not do this with such ease ...now we know why they merged with BO...read all about it here SAP Business Objects Explorer

and check this out fellas ...i used an excel file in the instructions mentioned in this link BUSINESS OBJECTS EXPLORER and i could not believe this !!!

EXAMPLE BUSINESS OBJECTS EXPLORER

also check this article on BO Explorer i found in SDN

Twitter !

Welcome to the world of Twitter on SAP NW Portal. please follow us on some useful tips and tricks which will help us collaborate better..

http://twitter.com/SAPNWPortal

New Design!!!

Hello folks..

The old template started to look like an ancient website built in 1999 and hence I have a new template. with new features from "blogger" make use of the comments section and the new Polls ! hope you guys like the new design.

System Users Created during a NW (Portal) installation

SAPinst creates the following users during the installation process :

SIDadm : This ID is used to logon to the physical server which connects to the Instance that is being
installed which inturn connects to the ABAP/JAVA schema. This ID is also used for administrating the SAP system.

SAPServiceSID : User id required to start the SAP system internally which has the local user right to log on as a service.

SAP_SID_GlobalAdmin : domain level admin group to group users at the domain level so that
the global domain and users can be placed in the right local groups.

SAP_SID_LocalAdmin : local admin group available only in the local machine. this contains the global admin group
of the domain to which the system belongs.

SAP_LocalAdmin : users in this group have full control of the usr/sap folder. SIDadm and SAPServiceSID are
members of this group.


SID: system ID.