The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast

The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast episodes:

• 01.26.2024

  #340 - PeopleTools 8.61

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new features in PeopleTools 8.61 and discuss some of the hidden gems in this release. Show Notes psadmin.conf - May 20-22, 2024 @ 1:45 ...

  
• 11.11.2023

  #339 - Uptime Monitoring

  This week on the podcast, Dan shares how he uses Heartbeat to track uptime in PeopleSoft and Kyle discusses the new Password Management features in Cloud Manager 16. Show Notes Uptime...

  
• 10.20.2023

  #338 - 8.61 Planned Features

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss the PeopleTools 8.61 Planned Features and share what they are excited about in the new release. Dan also shared some updates to the patchBot project and how to use it....

  
• 04.28.2023

  #337 - ACM and Load Balancers

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss securing your public user and leaking information, how to speed up change assistant upgrade projects, and new ACM plugins to work with Load Balanced gateways. Show Notes psadmin.conf @ 1:00...

  
• 03.03.2023

  #336 - 8.60 Themes and How we use the DPK

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new psadmin.io Themes for 8.60, and then they discuss how they are currently using the DPK to build new environments and what has changed in the DPK since it...

  
• 02.03.2023

  #335 - io_homes DPK Module

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the changes to the 8.60 database upgrade and the new PPTLS860 project. Dan also shares some updates to the IO_STYLE_859 project and discusses his new io_homes DPK module. Show Notes...

  
• 12.23.2022

  #334 - byop - Bring Your Own Patches - an Infra-DPK Builder

  This week on the podcast, Dan discusses a new tool he built to simplify CPU patches by using the same tools as the Infrastructure DPK. byop, or Build Your Own Patches, will take a list of patches to download and...

  
• 12.14.2022

  psadmin.conf 2023 Registration is Open!

  You can now register for psadmin.conf 2023! Click here to see more information and register. psadmin.conf is a conference specifically for PeopleSoft Administrators. The conference features talks from expert admins on a variety of topics, as well as hands-on training...

  
• 11.04.2022

  #333 - Opensearch and PeopleTools 8.60 w/ Sasank Vemana

  This week on the podcast, PeopleTools Strategy Director Sasank Vemana joins us to talk about the upcoming switch to Opensearch, Configurable Search, Redwood UI, and some of his favorite features in PeopleTools 8.60. Show Notes Redwood UX for PeopleSoft...

  
• 10.21.2022

  #332 - PeopleTools 8.60

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss PeopleTools 8.60 and the great features that were released. Dan also shares his thoughts on using Cloud Manager to upgrade environments to 8.60. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan...

  
• 09.23.2022

  #331 - psst

  Dan and Kyle are back and this week they discuss SSH tips, playing Minecraft, and Kyle's new PeopleSoft Secrets Tool (psst). The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes Minecraft, scp, and spaces...

  
• 06.24.2022

  #330 - New to 9.2

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about building a nightly refresh environment and the benefits of automating the process, and Dan talks about upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2. Show Notes 9.2 Go-Live @ 1:45 Oracle MERGE command...

  
• 06.10.2022

  #329 - RTI Maintenance

  This week on the podcast, we talk about the RTI Maintenance job, fixing the systemd scripts from the DPK, and using the OCI-AutoScale project. Show Notes RTI Maintenance Job @ 3:15 systemd scripts for Linux @ 11:30 OCI-AutoScale...

  
• 06.03.2022

  #328 - psadmin.conf 2022 Recap

  This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle recap the psadmin.conf 2022 conference. Show Notes Getting the Most Out of PeopleTools @ 2:30 Kibana Lab @ 10:15 Monday Open Lab @ 13:00 Automating Maintenance Windows @ 15:00 Journey to...

  
• 04.29.2022

  #327 - HAProxy and OCI Load Balancer

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about mapping remote client IPs to PeopleSoft logs and tables, and then discuss the benefits of load balancing with HAProxy and the OCI Load Balancer as a Service. Show Notes ...

  
• 04.15.2022

  #326 - Portal Registry Migration Fixes

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about what they learned about migrating Portal Registry objects. Show Notes psadmin.io Conference Agenda is Live @ 2:00 Puppet Acquisition @ 5:45 Syntax Highlighting for Notepad++ @ 11:00 Testing...

  
• 04.01.2022

  #325 - psadmin.io Themes

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new psadmin.io Themes for 8.59 (and 8.58), using the OCI Auto Scale project to save money on OCI, and the benefits of blogging. Show Notes psadmin.conf Registration...

  
• 03.25.2022

  #324 - Certificate Management

  This week, Kyle and Dan talk about Themes and SSO, and how to manage certificates for PeopleSoft with the DPK. Show Notes psadmin.conf Registration @ 1:00 MacroSets and SSO @ 2:45 IO Fluid Themes (8.56+) https://github.com/psadmin-io/io-styles-fluid IO...

  
• 03.18.2022

  #323 - patchBot

  This week on the podcast, Dan discusses his experience running a DR test in Oracle Cloud. Dan and Kyle also talk about patchBot, a tool to get notifications about new patches on Oracle Support, and some updates to their Rundeck...

  
• 03.11.2022

  #322 - Control Groups

  This week on the podcast, Dan shares some follow-up on the 8.59 Infrastructure DPK and its advantages, and then Kyle and Dan talk about using Control Groups on Linux. Show Notes psadmin.conf Call for Presentations @ 3:00 8.59 Infrastructure...

  
• 03.04.2022

  #321 - 8.60 Planned Features

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new planned features for PeopleTools 8.60 and share their thoughts on upcoming features. Show Notes Planned Features and Enhancement Document Lifecycle Management @ 3:00 User Interface @...

  
• 02.25.2022

  #320 - Search and Data Visualization w/ Sasank Vemana

  This week on the podcast, we interview Sasank Vemana and talk about updates in PeopleSoft searching and data visualization tools. Show Notes Introducing Sasank Vemana @ 1:00 Search Capabilities in 8.59 @ 4:30 Alphabetical Menus @ 9:30 Quick Access...

  
• 02.18.2022

  #319 - 8.59 Infrastructure DPK

  This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about the 8.59 Infrastructure DPK and how it works, and also discuss building PeopleSoft Images from the OCI Marketplace. Show Notes .conf 2022 Registration @ 1:00 8.57 support is done...

  
• 02.11.2022

  #318 - Open Source w/ Tim Slater

  This week on the podcast, Tim Slater joins us to talk about his open source PeopleSoft projects: TraceWizard, DMS-Viewer, ProjectViewer, and Pivet. Show Notes Introducing Tim Slater @ 1:25 Tim's Open Source PeopleSoft Projects DMSViewer @ 5:00 TraceWizard...

  
• 02.04.2022

  #317 - The "Links" Page

  This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about building a "Links" page for supporting environments and why they like or don't like them. Show Notes Sasank on Kibana Visualizations @ 1:30 Part 1 Part...

  
• 01.28.2022

  #316 - Favorites

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about Favorites in PeopleSoft and share some fun ways to improve how you manage Favorites. Show Notes Favorite Queries @ 1:00 Queries in Navigation @ 4:30 Favorite Queries...

  
• 12.24.2021

  #315 - DMSViewer

  This week on the podcast, Dan revisits a tip for debugging Change Assistant issues and a replacement for the ls command, and Kyle talks about the new 8.59 Infra-DPK. Show Notes Exa - new utility to replace ls @...

  
• 12.17.2021

  #314.5 log4shell Part 2

  Our second podcast this week is a quick follow-up on the log4shell vulnerability and updated steps you can take to remediate or patch your systems. Show Notes 2nd CVE for log4j Logpresso Weblogic Patch ...

  
• 12.14.2021

  #314 - log4shell and PeopleTools

  On this early release episode, Kyle and Dan talk about the log4shell vulnerability and how to mitigate the risk for PeopleSoft. Show Notes log4shell - Vulnerability issue with log4j @ 0:30 Affected Products - Oracle Affected...

  
• 12.10.2021

  #313 - ACM Execution

  This week on the podcast, Dan shares some recent bash tips he learned, and Kyle and Dan discuss different ways to execute ACM and their pros and cons. Show Notes psadmin.conf 2022 Registration is Live! @ 4:00 Bash Tracing...

  
• 11.29.2021

  #312 - Stalling at 30%

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new Rundeck Cloud product, working with the DDDAudit report, preventing App Designer from stalling at 30%, and updating the ACM with SQL. Show Notes Rundeck Cloud @ 4:15...

  
• 11.19.2021

  #311 - Cloud Manager 13

  This week on the podcast, Dan shares some new PeopleTools ideas for Change Assistant and Control-J, and Kyle and Dan talk about the new Cloud Manager 13 features. Show Notes New PeopleTools Ideas @ 5:00 Change Assistant Source...

  
• 11.12.2021

  #310 - No Agenda 2

  This week Dan and Kyle have no agenda and talk about what's on their minds and enjoy a new patio and fire. They discuss retrofitting strategies, what to look for when hiring a PS Admin, and more.

  
• 11.05.2021

  #309 - Digital Certificates

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about certificates with PeopleSoft, the OCI certificate service, and a cool terminal recording program ASCIInema. Show Notes GitHub CoPilot and VIM @ 2:00 Learning and Re-learning VIM @ 8:00 ASCIInema.org...

  
• 10.29.2021

  #308 - DDDAUDIT Mod

  This week on the podcast, Dan talks about some changes to the DDDAudit report to generate SQL, and some changes in refresh scripts for 8.58. Kyle discusses ways to test and validate Integration Broker messages after a refresh. Show Notes...

  
• 10.22.2021

  #307 - Save Banner

  This week on the podcast, Dan shares some odd behavior with Remote Folders and some UI changes from Jim Marion, and Kyle talks about some improvements in the Page and Field Configurator. Show Notes "It's the Portal!" @ 1:45...

  
• 10.01.2021

  #306 - Command Line Irrelevant

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about egress costs with CloudFlare's new R2 storage, troubleshooting routings, and irrelevant command line parameters. Show Notes CloudFlare R2 @ 1:45 HTTP 415 Errors @ 14:45 Compare Reports for Routings...

  
• 09.24.2021

  #305 - Management Platforms

  This week on the podcast, Dan discusses an improvement to the Navigator, and emailing BI Publisher report. Then Kyle and Dan discuss why you should have a management platform for your PeopleSoft servers. Show Notes Updated Look and Feel...

  
• 09.17.2021

  #304 - Don't Forget About SYSAUDIT

  This week on the podcast, Kyle has some Control-R follow-up, Dan shares a strange login issue he resolved, and remembering the importance of the SYSAUDIT Report. Show Notes Ctrl+R Follow-up @ 4:30 VisualStudio Code and OCI @ 11:45...

  
• 09.10.2021

  #303 - Portal Registry Migrations

  This week on the podcast, Kyle talks about challenges with migrating Portal Registry objects, getting free OCI training and certification, and some tips for making SQL Developer faster. Show Notes FREE OCI Training and Certs @ 3:15 Portal...

  
• 09.03.2021

  #302 - Change Package Defaults

  This week on the podcast, Kyle shares another bash tip and discusses daily logs, Dan talks about HTML Compare Reports and an idea to set change package defaults in the PUM. Show Notes Cntl-R @ 4:00 zsh Bash...

  
• 08.27.2021

  #301 - Inverse Square

  This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about Red Hat 8, containers, some issues with the latest PUM images, and a crazy fun inverse square function. Show Notes Fast Inverse Square Root from Quake III @ 2:00...

  
• 08.20.2021

  #300 - Auto-Applying PRPs

  This week on the podcast, Dan talk about email authenticity and his experience with the auto-applying PRPs in FS Image 40, and Kyle shares ways to find hidden errors with Kibana. Show Notes Email Authenticity @ 2:45 ...

  
• 08.13.2021

  #299 - Makefiles

  This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle discuss the new HCM Encryption Framework, share some Bash tips, and then Kyle gives a good overview of Makefiles and how they can be used to simplify common tasks. Show Notes ...

  
• 08.06.2021

  #298 - Git Patching

  This week on the podcast, Kyle explains the new SPB and SPBAT tools for WebLogic patching, Dan discusses the new External Data Integration for Elasticsearch, and then they talk about using Git Patches with the DPK, SQRs, and COBOL. Show...

  
• 07.30.2021

  #297 - Rundeck and AJP

  This week on the podcast, Dan talks about using Phire to compare with PeopleSoft Images, Dan and Kyle discuss some of the Lifecycle changes with PeopleTools, and then Kyle talks about using AJP with Rundeck. Show Notes Phire Fun...

  
• 07.23.2021

  #296 - SSOTester

  This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle discuss some edge-cases with Unified Navigation, how the SSOTester calls work, and some lessons learned when setting up Unified Navigation with Appsian. They also talk about 8.59 being available for on-prem customers...

  
• 07.16.2021

  #295 - Update Manager Improvements

  This week on the podcast, Kyle shares some tips to manage long-running process schedulers jobs and Dan talks about some of the improvements in the new Update Manager tools. Show Notes Expired GPG Keys @ 2:00 ...

  
• 07.09.2021

  #294 - That is fine

  This week on the podcast, Dan gives an update on his Hyper-V work with Vagabond and shares a funny log line he found, and Kyle shares some thoughts on making Hiera and eYAML more secure. Show Notes Vagabond and...

  
• 07.02.2021

  #293 - Hyper-V

  This week on the podcast, Dan talks about his 8.59 testing experience, testing Hyper-V for PeopleSoft Images, and Kyle and Dan discuss compare reports from the Update Manager. Show Notes GitHub CoPilot @ 4:00 PeopleTools 8.59 Bugs? @ 11:30...