Blogs posted November 2004

Today I got an email from a friend regarding an interview with VC Superman Don Valentine where he says things like:      SAP is the noisiest non-participant in the business   What? But then I read Jeff... Read More »

In my SAP Logon Ticket-based Single Sign-On, I discussed how to implement SAP logon ticket-based SSO. In this installment, I will discuss how to implement SSO with User Mapping. When integrating a content-providing backend application (a.k.a.... Read More »

Last day at the SDN Clubhouse SDN Clubhouse highlight of the last day was the give-away of the coveted SAP TechEd ’04 “ÜberGeek” T-shirts. Just like in San Diego and Munich we had a long queue of people eager to take away... Read More »

Again as with the previous weblog  (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/1017), this only works in IE 5.5+ 100%. Other browsers well sometimes you get a little lucky and sometimes not. Also, credits to David J. Hark ... Read More »

It is November. Autumn leaves are brown. The Temperature in Walldorf, Baden, Germany is around 0º C (32 F). That’s when water freezes. Time to dream of Summertime. Let’s have a look at Summertime (also known as Daylight Saving Time) and all... Read More »

I have been asked many times about how robust is SAP XI. That translates into two questions: 1) how many messages can XI handle? and 2) how big a message XI can handle? The classical answer to this question is “it depends”. Here is a... Read More »

An often overlooked restriction of KM is that it doesn’t support anonymous users (see the SAP EP Security Guide.) While I can’t explain the technical reasons behind this restriction (I simply don’t know them — perhaps one of... Read More »

So we have the Top Contributor list with the  four Übergeeks:       Thomas Jung ,       Craig Cmehil,       Dagfinn Parnas ... Read More »

“…At the beginning, when I tried to see my next customer visit details, and get myself ready for it, it was a mass – all sorts of white papers, yellow sticky notes on my laptop screen, red/blue/brown diagrams on my white board... Read More »

Implementing the Refrigerator In the last couple of months I have spoken at two technical conferences – SAP TechEd and the ASUG Technical Forum – on the topic of SAP NetWeaver Landscapes. It was a topic that I had submitted... Read More »