Security considerations for SAP on Windows is an issue which is in focus at any Windows datacenter. There are many solutions available to secure Windows as well as SAP on the various layers – from using firewalls to secure port configurations, using...

A colleague just pointed me to a wiki at SAP ( http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAPConn/ABAP+Connectivity+Home ) where they announce a new version of the SAP .NET Connector. It will support current Windows releases (Windows XP 32 Bit, Windows 2003...

SAP Netweaver Adaptive Computing Controller 7.2 which has finished it’s ramp-up phase in May 2010 brought a very interesting capability for virtualized landscapes. Via a web service client, ACC can now detect and control virtual machines as platforms...

Already since a couple of years, Microsoft makes free toolkits available to check the infrastructure for certain Microsoft roles. This toolkit’s have commonly been named Best Practice Analyzer and provided for example functions to check the configuration...

SAPPHIRE Orlando is around the corner, as every year we will have a booth and we are looking forward to a lot of good customer discussions around topics like SQL Server, Duet Enterprise, Microsoft BI, Interoperability, and more. During SAPPHIRE there...

Since Windows Server 2008 R2 brought a couple of very interesting new features into Hyper-V, the Best Practices White Paper for SAP on Hyper-V has been updated to provide info about it. The White Paper is available at: Best Practices for SAP on...

Andre Fischer from SAP published an interesting paper of how to integrate the Universal Worklist (UWL) into Microsoft Office SharePoint. The paper shows this integration with Office SharePoint Server 2007 but it will also work with Microsoft SharePoint...

There is another SAP Virtualization week coming soon and Microsoft will present there an update on the latest state of SAP on Hyper-V. The session is scheduled for Tuesday, April 13th and the abstract is as follows: SAP on Hyper-V V2 This session...

As mentioned in my last blog Hermann Daeubler worked on two new whitepapers which are now published. The first paper describes how to use parameterized MDX in SSRS to access SAP BW, t he paper has a walk-through section with screenshots from three different...

Hello, we just published a new whitepaper about BizTalk Server 2009 and SAP at http://www.microsoft.com/isv/sap/technology/interop/biztalk.aspx . The document describes how to integrate, automate, and simplify business processes using Microsoft BizTalk...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager is the management tool for larger virtualized infrastructures consisting of many physical servers, potentially clusters and many virtual machines. It did provide already in its Windows Server 2008 version the capability...

Energy efficiency and sustainability for IT infrastructures is clearly a major discussion today. There are of course quite a few environmental reasons to think about this but besides this, lowering the use of energy also improves the TCO and reduces the...

While the validation of SAP applications on Windows Server 2008 R2 currently still goes on, SAP has made last week an important announcment regarding the use of Windows Server 2008 R2 for Hyper-V Server purposes. It's now officially supported by SAP to...

The 2010 Microsoft Customer Advisory Board meeting for SAP Customers in the EMEA region will be taking place on February 24, 2010. This board is designed for Senior Technical Decision Makers (IT Professional, Architect and Developer) at customers. The...

“Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration Training for SAP Solutions” is a four-day, hands-on technical training course offered at no cost aimed at educating attendees who are looking to learn best practices for installation and administration of SAP...

SAP published a new version of the PDK (Portal Development Kit) for .NET a few days ago on SDN. The new version of the PDK supports now Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 as well as the .NET Framework 3.5. You can download the PDK at http://service.sap.com...

SAP issued a new note on November 30 th that they support SAPGUI 7.10 on Windows 7 effective immediately, see SAP note 1412821. Since SAP GUI 7.10 was built using Visual Studio 2005 which runs out of regular maintenance on April 12 th 2011 the support...

SAP is currently validating Windows Server 2008 R2 and plans to issue a support statement for their applications on Windows Server 2008 R2 by end of Q1/2010. Since Windows Server 2008 R2 will be based on a new kernel which enhances the functionality already...

As written in my last blog I was not able to make it to SAP TechEd Vienna but my colleagues Steve Fox and Juergen Grebe delivered a great presentation in front of more than 200 people about Office 14, SharePoint 2010, and SAP. Steve already posted a blog...

I planned to be in Vienna for SAP TechEd next week for doing a presentation about Office 14 and SharePoint 2010 but as it looks I have to skip my travel. My colleagues Steve Fox and Juergen Grebe will deliver the session instead, so you still have a chance...

Next week is SAP TechEd in Phoenix, Arizona, and I will present about standard based interoperability between Microsoft .NET and SAP NetWeaver. In the session I will cover Web Services, Enterprise Services, SAML, CMIS, and XML-A. The session is SOA216...

Many of you probably have already seen messages that in-place upgrades of the Windows O/S with third-party apps require special attention. Upgrading from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 or from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2...

As Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows 7 at Oct. 22 2009, we have raised the question of early support for Win 7 by SAP GUI with SAP. The official statement of SAP is SAP GUI 7.20 will support Win 7. Information about the schedule and...

Hello, SAP released SP13 for SAP GUI beginning of May. With this service pack SAP announced two important new features: · Support of IE 8 in SAP GUI, see SAP note 66971 “Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is supported by SAP GUI for Windows...

As I got often asked about planning for the right infrastructures and operation for SAP in virtualized installations using Hyper-V, I just finished my White Paper which gives answers here. It addresses the aspect of SAP sizing and support, design of network...