May 22-24th, 2023
Minneapolis, MN
Embassy Suites by Hilton Minneapolis Airport
A conference specifically for PeopleSoft Administrators. The conference features talks from expert admins on a variety of topics, as well as hands-on training from Oracle ACEs. The goal of the conference is to expand your knowledge of PeopleSoft Administration and network with admins from around the world.
Agenda
Monday
5/22
| 10:00 | Welcome |
| 10:30 | Lab Environments |
| 11:00 | PeopleTools Technology Update and Roadmap: psadmin edition (Oracle) |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Implementing Functional ElasticSearch Indexes and Kibana Dashboards |
| 13:30 | Opensearch Lab |
| 19:00 | Open Lab |
Wednesday
5/24
| 08:30 | Coffee Talk |
| 09:00 | CY2 Solutions Toolkit (CY2) |
| 09:30 | Disaster Recovery – Living on secondary site |
| 10:00 | PeopleSoft Platforms Update (Oracle) |
| 11:00 | PeopleTools Round Table w/ Oracle |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | 25 tasks we wish Change Assistant would automate |
| 14:00 | Lightning Talks |
| 15:00 | Closing |
Note: All times Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Call for Lightning Talks
Try a Lightning Talk. These are quick 5 minute, single topic talks. We will be taking submissions up until the conference 5/24.
Monday
Welcome!
Monday, May 22nd - 10:00 CDT
Join us for our conference welcoming session. We will be going over the agenda and logistics of the conference. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion as well!
Lab Environments
Monday, May 22nd - 10:30 CDT
In this very important session, we will be distributing lab environments. Each attendee will receive their own environment. We will complete all setup and confirmation needed to complete the labs throughout the conference. Please make sure to attend! If you can't make this session, please reach out to [email protected] and we can assist you with your lab setup.
PeopleTools Technology Update and Roadmap: psadmin edition
Sasank Vemana - Oracle
Monday, May 22nd - 11:00 CDT
Oracle continues to invest in PeopleSoft technology. In this session, you will hear about the key features delivered in the latest release of PeopleTools and Could Manager.
Topics covered are Search in PeopleSoft (including our move to OpenSearch), Oracle’s full suite of cloud-ready lifecycle management tools (including PeopleSoft Cloud Manager), analytics, emerging technology, and more.
Implementing Functional Elasticsearch Indexes and Kibana Dashboards
Kevin Feely - UC Berkeley
Monday, May 22nd - 13:00 CDT
Learn how UC Berkeley implemented Functional ElasticSearch Indexes and Kibana Dashboards. Topics will include configuration, security, challenges, issues, and resolutions to issues. Lessons learned and recommendations will also be shared as well as our next steps and our plan to migrate to OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards.
Opensearch Lab
Monday, May 22nd - 13:30-17:00 CDT
This lab will cover the use of Opensearch and the topic of containerization.
Open Lab
Monday, May 22nd - 19:00-22:00 CDT
Dan and Kyle will be hosting an Open Lab session. This is a lab session with no agenda. Come with questions on the labs or any other topics to discuss with instructors and other attendees!
Tuesday
Coffee Talk
Tuesday, May 23rd - 08:30 CDT
Join Dan, Kyle, and other attendees at this informal roundtable discussion.
OCI: The Journey Continues
La Minh, Petr Lensky - Los Rios Community College
Tuesday, May 23rd - 09:00 CDT
An update on the journey Los Rios is taking with PeopleSoft on its way to the cloud.
Making Password Change Policies less painful in Peoplesoft
Nate Werner - University of Minnesota
Tuesday, May 23rd - 10:00 CDT
Discuss the various passwords in supporting Peoplesoft, challenges in changing passwords with a large number of environments, and share some tools to take the toil and stress out of password change process.
Containerizing PeopleSoft in AWS
Dave Kimmel - MacEwan University
Tuesday, May 23rd - 11:00 CDT
MacEwan University has successfully transformed its PeopleSoft environment from a traditional on-prem deployment into a containerized application running in Kubernetes on AWS. We moved from a deployment where most elements of the environment were built by hand and difficult to scale to one where every deployment is automated, repeatable, and easily scalable.
In this talk I will show how we built container images for the different PeopleSoft components (App Server, Web Server, ElasticSearch), how we are deploying these in AWS’ Elastic Kubernetes Service, and how we use AWS and non-AWS services to support and automate the deployments. I’ll also talk about the challenges we faced, what we did to overcome them, and what our future plans for our PeopleSoft deployment in AWS are.
Real Time Indexing: What truly works and What does not
Gaurav Ohri - The University of Texas System
Tuesday, May 23rd - 13:00 CDT
In this Session we will go through the concepts of Real time indexing. How to implement it and leverage it to perform incremental indexing in Elasticsearch. However the crux of the session would be about what Oracle delivers and what is actually supported. Latest PUM version delivers a lot of Real time indexes in Campus Solutions, Finance and HCM, however do we really get what we see we can implement ?
We will go through our Journey (University of Texas System) of what was delivered, what could be implemented and the most important part of what is Supported by Oracle? The main benefir of the session would be leverage this knowledge to understand what incremental indexes can be replaced with RTI and which ones cannot be yet.
Automated Refresh Lab
Tuesday, May 23rd - 13:30-17:00 CDT
This lab will cover useful tools and approaches to automating PeopleSoft environment refreshes.
Open Lab
Tuesday, May 23rd - 19:00-22:00 CDT
Dan and Kyle will be hosting an Open Lab session. This is a lab session with no agenda. Come with questions on the labs or any other topics to discuss with instructors and other attendees!
Wednesday
Coffee Talk
Wednesday, May 24th - 08:30 CDT
Join Dan, Kyle, and other attendees at this informal roundtable discussion.
CY2 Solutions Toolkit
Wednesday, May 24th - 09:00 CDT
Directory Viewer
CY2 developed this utility specifically to address the challenges faced by PeopleSoft Administrators allowing (end) users / functional and technical administrators / developers restricted access to directories on the different servers that make up a PeopleSoft architecture. The directory viewer allows users to view, download, upload, delete, zip (ideal for DMW) documents and folders using a strict and granular folder access security.
The functionality is commonly used to:
- Allow developers access to log files on the application server and web server for debugging errors and viewing integration logs.
- Allow end users the ability to upload and delete files to / from specific directories that can be used as upload directories for business transactions that require external files (csv / excel / etc.).
- Allow admins easy access for server directories while using the front-end application.
Switch User
CY2 developed this utility specifically to assist PeopleSoft Administrators when they are providing help desk assistance to students, faculty and administrative staff who call in and the help session requires the PS Admin to emulate/assume the identity of the caller in order to troubleshoot the problem. The functionality comes with audit capabilities, approval flows including the person who’s account is “taken over” and “return to my own user” functionality.
Switch User can also be used to eliminate the sharing of batch ID’s amongst PS Admins. The PS Admin can sign-in using their OPRDEFN and then use switch user to sign in and run batch jobs as the user under which name batch jobs are configured.
Project Analyzer
CY2 developed this utility to support admins and developers while migrating PeopleSoft projects. The Project Analyzer offers front-end driven validation of the project content against a large number of checks, defined by the institution itself and / or taken from the central repository on GitHub. Checks include obsolete objects, missing objects, Code auditing, validation of content in relation to internal coding standards, etc.
Disaster Recovery – Living on a Secondary Site
Victor Frank - Jack Henry
Wednesday, May 24th - 09:30 CDT
Disaster Recovery – Living on secondary site for half a year.
PeopleTools Platform Overview
Mark Hoernemann - Oracle
Wednesday, May 24th - 10:00 CDT
This session walks you through Oracle’s PeopleTools certifications – including browsers, operating systems, databases, search and other components certified with PeopleTools.
PeopleTools Round Table w/ Oracle
Sasank Vemana & Mark Hoernemann - Oracle
Wednesday, May 24th - 11:00 CDT
Join members of the Oracle PeopleTools Strategy team in an open roundtable discussion.
25 tasks we wish Change Assistant would automate for us
Frank Dolezal - University of Nebraska System
Wednesday, May 24th - 13:00 PM CDT
- How automating these tasks saves time and minimize mistakes.
- What we did to automate them ourselves.
- Include Scripts that you can implement thru shell, Rundeck or other DevOps platforms .
- Opportunities for Cloud Manager to help us in the future.
Lightning Talks
Multiple Presenters
Wednesday, May 24th - 14:00 CDT
Lightning Talks are quick, fast-paced talks given in succession, averaging about 5 minutes in length. These talks are always fun and pack great little bits of knowledge.