Summary of SAS 9.2 Migration Course Tweets
Posted by Shane Gibson on December 2, 2009
Well course is over and I passed, so wahoo for me!
I am blogging all my tweets from the course so it is easier for me to search them in the future.
SAS 9.2 Folder tree permissions may remove the requirement to have multiple application server definitions to secure libraries about 2 hours ago from web
You can review the DI Studio migration reports at \Lev1\Logs\Config\ETL~.log about 2 hours ago from web
When migrating you lose all your WRV/WRS report schedules and will need to recreate them about 2 hours ago from web
EG automated migration mappings don’t work (yet) – Last bit on this page http://tinyurl.com/m48bzx about 3 hours ago from web
Users Subscription Profiles (Publish and Subscribe) have to be recreated in SAS 9.2 by an Admin user. about 3 hours ago from web
An error occurs when you exit SAS® Enterprise Guide http://support.sas.com/kb/33/988.html about 3 hours ago from web
Migrating EG 2.x to EG 4.2 http://support.sas.com/kb/35/922.html about 3 hours ago from web
EG migration support note: http://support.sas.com/kb/37/956.html, about 3 hours ago from web
Special Considerations for Customers Upgrading to SAS 9.2 http://tinyurl.com/yc7hlmc about 3 hours ago from web
Remember to clear the WRS Query Cache before doing SMU about 4 hours ago from web
Wonder what this new SAS 9.2 web url does? /SASBIPortlets about 4 hours ago from web
SASMeta has a workspace server to run promotion/replication and backups about 4 hours ago from web
SAS 9.2 SMC now has a metadata analyse and repair utility built in. Metadata Manager > Active Server (right Click) about 4 hours ago from web
You should probably run Proc Metacleanse before the migration: http://support.sas.com/kb/33/577.html about 20 hours ago from web
In 9.2 by default there are now 2 application servers, SASApp and SASMeta. about 20 hours ago from web
SMU will migrate Portal Content, Partial/Manual promotion won’t. about 22 hours ago from web
Partial/Manual promotion won’t migrate users Data explorations about 22 hours ago from web
Users folders move to new My Folder about 22 hours ago from web
BIP Tree structure in 9.2 is the same as 9.1.3 about 22 hours ago from web
Export cubes via OLAP Cube Studio (SP4) export function and import into 9.2 about 23 hours ago from web
M2 should look for STP .sas files outside config path and migrate them. about 23 hours ago from web
Macro libraries outside config path need to be manually migrated. about 23 hours ago from web
SASContent server defaults to web app server (i.e 7001) so publish to webdav code needs to be chnaged from 8300 about 23 hours ago from web
Collection Portlet links may need to be updated, new tool in M2 to automate this. about 23 hours ago from web
Upgrade LSF and apply SMC hotfix before migration. about 23 hours ago from web
DI jobs need to be manually redployed about 23 hours ago from web
Issue with AD load, fixed in M3. http://support.sas.com/kb/37/099.html 3:50 PM Nov 30th from web
AD syncronisation scripts will need to be changed 3:49 PM Nov 30th from web
OMAbackup has been changed 3:49 PM Nov 30th from web
Security migration auditing and validation http://tinyurl.com/ylo6hnw 3:42 PM Nov 30th from web
9.1.3 to 9.2 migration guide http://tinyurl.com/dypcjo 3:30 PM Nov 30th from web
Port remap utility is part of M2 3:28 PM Nov 30th from web
All other hotfix levels (windows) are in \windows\vpd.properties 2:52 PM Nov 30th from web
Check hotfix level (windows), \Program Files\SAS\SAS 9.1\core\sasinst\hotfix 2:47 PM Nov 30th from web
To check Service Pack level for foundation invoke base SAS on the server 2:45 PM Nov 30th from web
Must add -davtier when running SMU on web tier 2:31 PM Nov 30th from web
Always run SMU on metadata tier first 2:31 PM Nov 30th from web
SMU doesnt doesnt bring across settings in the WRS LocalProperties file 1:49 PM Nov 30th from web
Rename the “SAS Administrators” group before running the Automatic Migration 1:36 PM Nov 30th from web
When migrating from 32 bit windows to 64 bit windows, you should run Proc Migrate on the datasets to upgrade them to 64 bit format 1:12 PM Nov 30th from web
SAS Deployment Wizard (SDW) has a capture/replay capability to record the install and automate it. 7:17 PM Nov 29th from web
Browser based SMC http://server:port/SASAdmin 6:23 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS 9.2 you can turn object spawner logging on and off in SMC without having to restart the object server 6:09 PM Nov 29th from web
9.2 supports 2 external Token Authentications, WebSeal and Siteminder 6:04 PM Nov 29th from web
Internal Accounts allow access to metadata realm, SAS Token Authentication allows access to SAS Compute Server realm 6:02 PM Nov 29th from web
You need to use Kerberos in 9.2 to utilise Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), which is windows based SSO as you need more than one hop 5:58 PM Nov 29th from web
By default Workspace Server doesn’t use Token Authentication, the other servers (i.e OLAP, STP, Table, Content, Pooled Workspace) do. 5:46 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS Token Authentication doesn’t work for outbound authentication (i.e Oracle) 5:43 PM Nov 29th from web
After default install change Policy “Allow user login from web logoff page” in config mgr, SAS Application Infrastructure – right click 5:33 PM Nov 29th from web
9.1.3 Inhertitance toolpool plugin for SMC is now std in 9.2 SMC 5:29 PM Nov 29th from web
New metadata permission “WriteMemberMetadata” allows you to create tables in a library, but not change permissions on library. 5:27 PM Nov 29th from web
Access unregistered plugins grants access to non-standard jars/plugins in SMC 5:26 PM Nov 29th from web
Public is automatically added to all roles in the default install. You then need to start removing them to lock things down. 5:17 PM Nov 29th from web
User and/or group can be assigned to roles. Roles are additive, you have to be assigned a role with the capability to use the function. 5:16 PM Nov 29th from web
New metadata security type = roles (think groups). Roles maps to capabilities (think applications/menus/functions). 5:14 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS 9.2 Deployment Manager Tool allows you to change a SAS system account password in all places at once. 5:10 PM Nov 29th from web
sassrv must stay as a externally authenticated account as it it needs to authenticated externally to run STP, Workspace servers etc 5:05 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS Metadata now does authentication (for/titled internal accounts), must user username@saspw construct. 4:52 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS have a script to backup Content Server, part of SAS Consulting install, not base install 3:37 PM Nov 29th from web
There is a new Web Administraton Console, cut down version of SMC 3:30 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS Logon Manager (part of Web Infrastructure Platform – WIP, used to be WIK) now handles login for all mid-tier applications 3:30 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS has paid for JBoss support subscription. So tech support can leverage this for patches where required (so be nice to tech support 
3:25 PM Nov 29th from web
Still cant promote Pages & Portlets in 9.2 2:56 PM Nov 29th from web
You can promote OLAP Schema’s/Cubes 2:55 PM Nov 29th from web
You can promote EG projects (if they are stored in Metadata) 2:55 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS 9.2 has batch promotion functionality, yeeha! 2:54 PM Nov 29th from web
BI Manager disappears, Import/Export now part of folder options. 2:53 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS 9.2 Metadata repair/validation tool based on Proc Metacleanse 2:50 PM Nov 29th from web
Metadata Server is now in UTF-8 compressed format, should reduce disk space (quite a bit-ish!) 2:47 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS Table Server is multi-user read/write based on firebird. 2:41 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS Table Server provides a mapping to SAS Datasets, removes the ability for users to see where the SAS Datasets are stored. 2:39 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS 9.1.3 Web Report Viewer disappears in 9.2 and is now part of Web Report Studio. 2:36 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS 9.2 Web/Java apps moved from .WAR to .EAR 2:36 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS 9.2 Content Server replaces WebDav (Xythos/Apache) 2:32 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS Foundation Services (9.1.3) allowed Java apps to talk to the metadata server, effectively an interface/translator for Java 2:28 PM Nov 29th from web
SAS 9.2 Mid Tier now uses UDP as well as TCP so firewall must be open to allow this. 2:20 PM Nov 29th from web
New server – Pooled Workspace Server, used by WRS for server side pooling (diff to std workspace server that is spooled) 2:04 PM Nov 29th from web
Stored Process Servers now only uses one port – no longer multiple load balanced ports 1:58 PM Nov 29th from web
9.2 OLAP server drill through now uses OLAP server rather than a workspace server session means double the number of OLAP Server connections
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