Peoplesoft for the Admin in you

  • Forcing end user browsers to clear cache

    I recently had an opportunity to pull an old trick out of my bag of goodies during a recent PeopleTools 8.54 upgrade I was assisting on.  The Question: How can we force all the users of PeopleSoft to clear their browser cache without needing to ask the users to do it manually?  The scenario was…

  • Slight to Change to PS_HOME in 8.54 psconfig.sh

    I’ve been working with some 8.54 PeopleTools installs and noticed a slight change in how $PS_HOME is set.  It’s hardly an issue, but I wasn’t expecting it, and it caught me off guard the first time.  Normally when you run the installer it would hard code the $PS_HOME variable in psconfig.sh to the path specified…

  • New Encryption Algorithm Impacts PeopleTools Connectivity

    I stumbled onto this little piece of info while researching an unrelated connectivity problem.  Oracle changed an encryption algorithm they use (for at least Access Id/Password) a few months back.  This change went in with PeopleTools 8.52.24, 8.53.17, and 8.54.04.  Most places I’ve been have always kept their PeopleTools clients at the same level as…

  • Building out a new HCM 9.2 Update Image 9 DEMO

    As mentioned here an updated version of  the PeopleSoft HCM media was released in late 2014.  I’ve done a few Demo installs of this on both Linux and Windows now, and here are my notes from a Linux install.  As in the past, these are rough notes I take when I do any install and…

  • PeopleTools in the re-released install media

    People that are installing PeopleSoft without a support contract may run into issues if they are using the new re-released PeopleSoft Application media.  This can impact those looking to evaluate the product, install for practice, or learn during the trial license.  The reason being, these images now contain a PeopleTools version inside the database that…

  • FSCM 9.2 re-released

    PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.2 has been re-released again.  I just saw today that the media on Oracle’s Software Delivery Cloud now has FSCM 9.2 with Update Image 11 available for download.  With this release comes a new certified upgrade image.  Those upgrading to FSCM 9.2 can now go straight to Update Image…

  • Poll: What Is Your Role in the PeopleSoft Realm

    In an effort to be more interactive with readers, I’m going to try to run a series of polls. Most will be related to PeopleSoft in some fashion, some may be for fun though. I hope you will participate and also find the results interesting.  Don’t forget to come back to check the results as…

  • How PeopleSoft uses SSL when acting as the Client

    Previously, I wrote about SSL and how Weblogic utilizes it from a server perspective.  This article provides a followup analysis from a client perspective, the client being the PeopleSoft system.  We will look at a few examples of different client uses in PeopleSoft and how we can control the protocol used.

  • Bypassing a Load Balancer

    Load balancers are fantastic devices but sometimes we need to get around them.  I can’t count the times I have needed or wanted to test/diagnosis the functionality of each PIA instance individually, especially when fighting what might appear at first as an intermittent or random issue.  When we have multiple PeopleSoft PIA instances behind a…

  • SSL and Weblogic

    As previously mentioned, I was doing an analysis of how PeopleSoft and Weblogic utilize SSL which was spawned by the announcement of POODLE.  I’m going to review my findings for Weblogic 10.3.6.x and then duplicate the analysis to see if anything is changed with Weblogic 12.1.2.  Weblogic 10.3.6.x is supported for any PeopleTools 8.50 –…

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