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Enterprise Services for LOB Applications deployed on the Microsoft Application Platform
Standing on the Shoulders of Students
Morning! I just arrived home from an interesting week up in the Pacific Northwest, and wanted to...
Date: 03/10/2012
SQL Server TDE with SAP Applications - Part #1 Enabling TDE
Introduction An organization can take several precautions to help secure a database, such as...
Date: 12/01/2011
Issues with SAP tools during migration/Unicode conversion
Hi, We raised some issues with the SAP migration tools during a replatforming project including...
Date: 05/03/2011
BI: The New Pervasive Mission-Critical Application
I have been thinking about Business Intelligence and Business Analytics the last few weeks. In my...
Date: 04/18/2011
Experiences with SQL Server Database Compression
I want to share some customer experiences with database compression we gathered in a large SAP...
Date: 04/13/2011
Transitioning Non-Production LOB systems into the Cloud
The more I speak with executive IT leaders nowadays, the more I hear the same: help me cut costs,...
Date: 01/19/2011
JD Edwards & SQL 2008 R2 Unicode Compression
One of the most important new features introduced in SQL Server 2008 was database compression (row...
Date: 01/18/2011
Trace Flag 1117 - A Safety Net You Might Not Be Aware Of
Are you running SQL 2008 for your SAP instance? If so, are you aware of trace flag 1117? There are a...
Date: 01/12/2011
Mission Critical Support for SAP and LOB Applications
In the IT community, we often talk about mission critical applications with the need to achieve high...
Date: 12/29/2010
Thinking for a Change
Thinking for a Change I thought I would take a break from all of the technical blogs and write about...
Date: 12/16/2010
Monitoring the Performance of your SAP SQL Database Files
Monitoring the Performance of Your SAP SQL Database Files The driving force behind outstanding...
Date: 12/16/2010
Configuring your SQL File Systems
Configuring Your SQL File Systems SQL Server will perform much better when the file systems are...
Date: 12/15/2010
Best Practices - SAN LUN Creation and Size Expansion for SAP Architectures Continued - Chapter 2
In the previous blog about LUN Creation and Size Expansion we talked about one of the don'ts for...
Date: 12/07/2010
SAP TCO/Risk Analysis and my Session at the SAP Insider IT 2011 Conference
I’m looking forward to presenting at the SAP Insider IT 2011 conference March 15-18 in Las...
Date: 12/02/2010
LOB Workload Testing: Single Unit, Load, Stress, and Smoke Testing
Testing the performance of a particular mission-critical workload on your Line of Business...
Date: 11/23/2010
SAP user and groups requirements in the active directory
Today for an SAP installation on Windows in an existing AD ___domain, some user and groups requirements...
Date: 11/22/2010
UKOUG JD Edwards 2010 November 10th and 11th
I will be presenting a session at the UK Oracle Users Group JD Edwards conference on Getting the...
Date: 11/02/2010
Is there more to LOB than SAP?
Thomas's opening blog implied that LOB wasn't just about SAP but also JD Edwards, Peoplesoft and...
Date: 10/27/2010
Cheap vs. Cost-Effective: The Underestimated Role of the DBA
Several weeks ago one of our joint customers with SAP complained about the capabilities of SQL...
Date: 10/23/2010
Twelve Methods of Flipping your Innovation/Operations Position
Think about the typical bell curve most SAP and other LOB IT organizations face today when it comes...
Date: 10/22/2010
Geographically dispersed cluster configuration for SAP on Windows / SQL Server
Our competitors often mention to our customer base, that it is not possible running a SAP...
Date: 10/22/2010
CoE Job Opening: Hiring an LOB Application Platform Architect
The LOB Application Platform team is looking for an additional team member. If you’re an experienced...
Date: 10/07/2010
New link for Brazil case studies
Dear followers For those who couldn't access the link of Brazil case studies another public link is...
Date: 10/05/2010
The Most Important Thing
As we roll into a new fiscal quarter here at Microsoft, I’ve had a question stuck in my mind:...
Date: 10/03/2010
Think Week & Microsoft Research
As Microsoft being the perfect example how to develop great software, expand and drive channel...
Date: 09/30/2010
Posting content in Spanish and Portuguese
Being part of LOB team based on LATAM I can share content in Portuguese and Spanish with our...
Date: 09/30/2010
Upgrading your SAP databases to SQL Server 2008 R2 using the System Copy Methodology
Recently I was onsite with a customer and worked on a checklist for them to upgrade to SQL Server...
Date: 09/29/2010
SQLIO Tips and Tricks for LOB Disk Performance Testing
At the request of one of our blog readers, I wanted to share several tips, tricks, and other basic...
Date: 09/27/2010
Building an SAP/Microsoft Interoperability Team
Building an SAP/Microsoft Interoperability Team I am passionate about the opportunities that are...
Date: 09/18/2010
Best Practices - SAN LUN Creation and Size Expansion for SAP Architectures
While dealing with customers over the last few months we have been encountering numerous scenarios...
Date: 09/14/2010
Process Maturity: When it comes to HA, it’s more important than Technology
When most of us think about system availability and maximizing uptime, our technical backgrounds and...
Date: 09/10/2010
The Cloud, about computing and services and how it relates to the SOA strategy
There is no doubt that the industry did shift from Hard- to Software years ago. We all faced the...
Date: 09/08/2010
SAP Database Refresh: Backing Up Users
When a SAP database refresh needs to be performed, you want to make sure you back up your users in...
Date: 09/08/2010
SAP Database Refresh: Exporting Printers in a non-production Environment
Every SAP shop performs database copies from their production system back to their QA and Test...
Date: 09/08/2010
Using Microsoft SQLIO to Baseline LOB Application Disk Performance
When implementing, replatforming, upgrading, or simply making technology stack changes to an LOB...
Date: 09/03/2010
Failover Clustering of SAP Systems with Hyper-V – Deployment Options
In the last months we got always the question from customers how to deploy and run SAP systems on a...
Date: 08/31/2010
Introducing the LOBApps Blog - Services for JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, SAP, Siebel, and other mission-critical line-of-business applications
Microsoft Services is the consulting and enterprise services support division of Microsoft. The...
Date: 07/22/2010