ASOA’s Administrative Beginners Circle was developed to assist new administrators who have 4 years or fewer of ophthalmic practice management experience in their practice management journey. Go to ASOA.org/abc, or find them on Facebook. Administrator Horror Stories is a production of the ASOA ABC Taskforce. Listen, like, and subscribe for more Administrator Horror Stories. If you dare…
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Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson talk about PeopleSoft Administration.
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The Agile Administrator, hosted by Julie Keane, focuses on the highs, the lows and craziness that surrounds being an administrator in the education field. We want to focus on issues that matter to you all, so be sure to email us at agileadmin@participate.com with any ideas, thoughts or feedback—we'd love to hear from you!
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Administrator Horror Stories Episode 10: The Migration Nightmare, Part I
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A senior ophthalmology leader was very excited about the opportunity to transition to a “world-class” system, until the conversion went from dream to nightmare very quickly.
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan have some company announcements and announce the dates for psadmin.conf 2025. Show Notes Save the Date for psadmin.conf 2025 @ 1:00 May 19-21, 2025 in Minneapolis, MN psadmin.io Changes @ 3:15
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#344 - PeopleSoft in Europe w/ Ernst La Haye
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This week on the podcast, Ernst La Haye joins us to talk about PeopleSoft in Europe, building open-source PeopleSoft projects, what his favorite new feature in PeopleSoft is. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes Ernst Introduction @ 1:00 Future of PeopleSoft and popularity in Europe @ 2:00 Github…
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#343 - Approaching Gaps in PeopleSoft Functionality with Jim Marion
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This week on the podcast, Jim Marion joins us to talk about using the suite of tools PeopleSoft provides us to fill in functionality gaps. Jim also covers some of his favorite changes in PeopleTools 8.60. Show Notes JMS Annual Training Plan @ 1:00 Approaching the gaps in PeopleSoft functionality @ 7:15 PeopleTools Upgrade changes @ 22:00 PeopleTool…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle talks about the oci-cli tool and how has customized its behavior using the .ociclirc file. Dan shares two of his DPK modules that work with OCI to support tags and building failover strings for the web server. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. https://traffic.libsyn.com/psa…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan about the future pathways to take to make sure you are taking advantage of the PeopleTools platform. The PeopleSoft Administrator Po dcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes PeopleTools Pathway General PeopleTools Changes @ 5:45 Development Tools @ 12:30 Search Capabilities @ 24:00 Infrastruc…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new features in PeopleTools 8.61 and discuss some of the hidden gems in this release. Show Notes psadmin.conf - May 20-22, 2024 @ 1:45 PeopleTools 8.61 is GA @ 4:15 UI Changes @ 5:00 Development Tools @ 11:00 Portal Technology @ 28:00 psadmin.io Stylesheets for 8.60/8.61 Reporting Tools @ 38:00 …
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This week on the podcast, Dan shares how he uses Heartbeat to track uptime in PeopleSoft and Kyle discusses the new Password Management features in Cloud Manager 16. Show Notes Uptime Monitoring with PeopleSoft @ 2:00 My Preferences Phone Number @ 16:00 Cloud Manager and Passwords @ 18:00 Graham Smith - Cloud Manager 16 Features psst - PeopleSoft S…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss the PeopleTools 8.61 Planned Features and share what they are excited about in the new release. Dan also shared some updates to the patchBot project and how to use it. Show Notes 8.61 Planned Features @ 1:30 patchBot @ 28:00
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss securing your public user and leaking information, how to speed up change assistant upgrade projects, and new ACM plugins to work with Load Balanced gateways. Show Notes psadmin.conf @ 1:00 Public Web Profile and Security @ 5:00 #140 - robots.txt io_portalwar DPK Module Change Assistant Filters @ 15:00…
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#336 - 8.60 Themes and How we use the DPK
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new psadmin.io Themes for 8.60, and then they discuss how they are currently using the DPK to build new environments and what has changed in the DPK since it was released. Show Notes psadmin.conf psadmin.io Themes for 8.60 @ 3:00 Working with CSS Variables io_weblogic - JVM -XX options @ 14:00 C…
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Administrator Horror Stories Episode 9: Idle Threat?
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A patient disputes his bill over the phone and decides to take the disagreement to another level.
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the changes to the 8.60 database upgrade and the new PPTLS860 project. Dan also shares some updates to the IO_STYLE_859 project and discusses his new io_homes DPK module. Show Notes psadmin.conf 2023 - May 22-24 @ 1:00 PeopleSoft Now Episode - A school districts journey to modern PeopleSoft in the C…
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#334 - byop - Bring Your Own Patches - an Infra-DPK Builder
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This week on the podcast, Dan discusses a new tool he built to simplify CPU patches by using the same tools as the Infrastructure DPK. byop, or Build Your Own Patches, will take a list of patches to download and store them in a format that matches the Infrastructure DPK. Show Notes psadmin.conf @ 1:30 Infra-DPK Overview @ 4:45 Create Patched DPK Ar…
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You can now register for psadmin.conf 2023! Click here to see more information and register. psadmin.conf is 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 People…
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#333 - Opensearch and PeopleTools 8.60 w/ Sasank Vemana
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This week on the podcast, PeopleTools Strategy Director Sasank Vemana joins us to talk about the upcoming switch to Opensearch, Configurable Search, Redwood UI, and some of his favorite features in PeopleTools 8.60. Show Notes Redwood UX for PeopleSoft @ 3:15 Redwood UI Introduction Opensearch Migration @ 14:30 The future of search Search Updates @…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss PeopleTools 8.60 and the great features that were released. Dan also shares his thoughts on using Cloud Manager to upgrade environments to 8.60. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes PeopleTools 8.60 is out @ 2:15 Video Feature Overview UI @ 5:45 Conf…
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Dan and Kyle are back and this week they discuss SSH tips, playing Minecraft, and Kyle's new PeopleSoft Secrets Tool (psst). The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes Minecraft, scp, and spaces @ 2:30 SSH Tips @ 8:00 psst - PeopleSoft Secrets Tool @ 12:45 psvault Python Click…
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Administrator Horror Stories Episode 8: Catfishing Doesn’t Just Happen on Dating Apps
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Are you sure the employee that you hired to performed remote work is actually the person that you hired? Is the person showing up to perform work the same person who is receiving the payment? This company discovered that a technology employee was not the person they hired.
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about building a nightly refresh environment and the benefits of automating the process, and Dan talks about upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2. Show Notes 9.2 Go-Live @ 1:45 Oracle MERGE command @ 13:30 Sandbox Refreshes @ 17:30 PDB Cloning
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Administrator Horror Stories Episode 7: No Such Thing as a Free Limo Ride, and Environmentally Unfriendly
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A provider’s office advertised that new patients could ride free to their appointment in a limousine, and going green improperly can create major risks.
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This week on the podcast, we talk about the RTI Maintenance job, fixing the systemd scripts from the DPK, and using the OCI-AutoScale project. Show Notes RTI Maintenance Job @ 3:15 systemd scripts for Linux @ 11:30 OCI-AutoScale @ 18:30 OCI Tagging @ 31:00 OCI Rundeck Node Plugin Uptime Meaningless? @ 37:30…
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This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle recap the psadmin.conf 2022 conference. Show Notes Getting the Most Out of PeopleTools @ 2:30 Kibana Lab @ 10:15 Monday Open Lab @ 13:00 Automating Maintenance Windows @ 15:00 Journey to the Cloud @ 16:30 OCI Migration @ 18:45 Environment Validation Lab @ 21:30 psft-validation Repository Tuesday Open Lab @ 25:…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about mapping remote client IPs to PeopleSoft logs and tables, and then discuss the benefits of load balancing with HAProxy and the OCI Load Balancer as a Service. Show Notes PeopleSoft Image Viewer - for those that won't be on 8.60 for a bit @ 4:45 Remote Client Directives in Web Profile @ 6:45 Load Bala…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about what they learned about migrating Portal Registry objects. Show Notes psadmin.io Conference Agenda is Live @ 2:00 Puppet Acquisition @ 5:45 Syntax Highlighting for Notepad++ @ 11:00 Testing Look and Feel HTML Changes @ 12:30 This worked for me - Portal Registry Migration fix @ 15:00 Kyle's Manual Fi…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new psadmin.io Themes for 8.59 (and 8.58), using the OCI Auto Scale project to save money on OCI, and the benefits of blogging. Show Notes psadmin.conf Registration ends April 30th, 2022 PeopleTools Blog has moved @ 4:30 Database-Heartbeat Blog OCI Auto Scaling @ 15:00 OCI Utils Image Cleanup @ …
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This week, Kyle and Dan talk about Themes and SSO, and how to manage certificates for PeopleSoft with the DPK. Show Notes psadmin.conf Registration @ 1:00 MacroSets and SSO @ 2:45 IO Fluid Themes (8.56+) https://github.com/psadmin-io/io-styles-fluid IO Classic Themes - https://github.com/psadmin-io/styles-855 Cloud Manager FSS Bug @ 20:15 Certifica…
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Administrator Horror Stories Episode 6: Illegal Access, and Check the Information
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A fired surgeon continues to access the hospital medical records system, and sending PHI to the wrong contact information is an expensive mistake.
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This week on the podcast, Dan discusses his experience running a DR test in Oracle Cloud. Dan and Kyle also talk about patchBot, a tool to get notifications about new patches on Oracle Support, and some updates to their Rundeck OCI Node Classifier. Show Notes psadmin.conf @ 1:00 FreeDOS @ 3:00 DR Testing in OCI @ 8:30 Rundeck OCI Node Classifier Up…
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This week on the podcast, Dan shares some follow-up on the 8.59 Infrastructure DPK and its advantages, and then Kyle and Dan talk about using Control Groups on Linux. Show Notes psadmin.conf Call for Presentations @ 3:00 8.59 Infrastructure DPK Follow-up @ 7:45 Relocatable Puppet in 8.59 @ 17:00 CGroups @ 23:00…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new planned features for PeopleTools 8.60 and share their thoughts on upcoming features. Show Notes Planned Features and Enhancement Document Lifecycle Management @ 3:00 User Interface @ 8:00 Development Tools @ 19:00 Security @ 24:30 Process Monitor @ 26:00…
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Administrator Horror Stories Episode 5: The Desk with the Red Flags
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During one organization’s normal onboarding/background check process, they discovered that less than two months after hiring a medical receptionist, their diligence needed to be ramped up.
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#320 - Search and Data Visualization w/ Sasank Vemana
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This week on the podcast, we interview Sasank Vemana and talk about updates in PeopleSoft searching and data visualization tools. Show Notes Introducing Sasank Vemana @ 1:00 Search Capabilities in 8.59 @ 4:30 Alphabetical Menus @ 9:30 Quick Access Bar @ 11:45 Search Suggestions @ 14:30 Graham Smith RTI Presentation at EIS Kibana and Data Visualizat…
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This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about the 8.59 Infrastructure DPK and how it works, and also discuss building PeopleSoft Images from the OCI Marketplace. Show Notes .conf 2022 Registration @ 1:00 8.57 support is done @ 4:15 PUM Marketplace Image Builds @ 10:45 Cloud Manager and OCI Vault @ 14:00 OL 8 now available from Microsoft Store @…
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This week on the podcast, Tim Slater joins us to talk about his open source PeopleSoft projects: TraceWizard, DMS-Viewer, ProjectViewer, and Pivet. Show Notes Introducing Tim Slater @ 1:25 Tim's Open Source PeopleSoft Projects DMSViewer @ 5:00 TraceWizard @ 14:30 TraceMagic ProjectViewer @ 29:00 Pivet @ 32:30 Getting Started with Pivet…
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This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about building a "Links" page for supporting environments and why they like or don't like them. Show Notes Sasank on Kibana Visualizations @ 1:30 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 psprcs.cfg - TraceSql or TraceSQL? @ 6:30 Building app server domains the "old" way The "Links" Page @ 14:30 Life without Rundeck @ 28:30…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about Favorites in PeopleSoft and share some fun ways to improve how you manage Favorites. Show Notes Favorite Queries @ 1:00 Queries in Navigation @ 4:30 Favorite Queries @ 9:30 Removing Personalization Options @ 20:15 How To Restrict Users From Adding Homepages or Tiles in Fluid Homepages Recent Places …
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Administrator Horror Stories Episode 4: It’s Not My Fault!, and Tired and Expired
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A billing statement mix-up that wasn’t an isolated event, and forgetting to renew a license causes more problems than anticipated.
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This week on the podcast, Dan revisits a tip for debugging Change Assistant issues and a replacement for the ls command, and Kyle talks about the new 8.59 Infra-DPK. Show Notes Exa - new utility to replace ls @ 1:45 CA erroring while importing PUM data @ 8:00 Tim Slater's DMSViewer @ 15:15 PRP Auto Apply Patch @ 19:00 Infra-DPK for 8.59 @ 22:45…
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Our second podcast this week is a quick follow-up on the log4shell vulnerability and updated steps you can take to remediate or patch your systems. Show Notes 2nd CVE for log4j Logpresso Weblogic Patch
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On this early release episode, Kyle and Dan talk about the log4shell vulnerability and how to mitigate the risk for PeopleSoft. Show Notes log4shell - Vulnerability issue with log4j @ 0:30 Affected Products - Oracle Affected Products - non-Oracle Overview of the Vulnerability Vulnerability Tester Remediation @ 18:45 Add "-Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups…
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This week on the podcast, Dan shares some recent bash tips he learned, and Kyle and Dan discuss different ways to execute ACM and their pros and cons. Show Notes psadmin.conf 2022 Registration is Live! @ 4:00 Bash Tracing @ 6:45 Idempotent Bash Script tips @ 11:30 File Manager Utility @ 16:15 GitHub Project How to run ACM @ 19:00…
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new Rundeck Cloud product, working with the DDDAudit report, preventing App Designer from stalling at 30%, and updating the ACM with SQL. Show Notes Rundeck Cloud @ 4:15 Rundeck and OCI MySQL Service DDDAudit Table Output @ 15:00 App Designer Stalling at 30% @ 18:45 Working with ACM via SQL @ 25…
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This week on the podcast, Dan shares some new PeopleTools ideas for Change Assistant and Control-J, and Kyle and Dan talk about the new Cloud Manager 13 features. Show Notes New PeopleTools Ideas @ 5:00 Change Assistant Source Only Mode Idea Control-J Developer Mode Idea Sasank's First Official PeopleSoft Post @ 16:30 Cloud Manager 13 @ 20:15 Cloud…
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Administrator Horror Stories Episode 3: Doctor Who II? (The Sequel), and It Will All Be Fine!
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Providers need to be careful when delegating diagnostic tests, and Medicare overpayments that are left unreturned and unreported can have consequences.
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This week Dan and Kyle have no agenda and talk about what's on their minds and enjoy a new patio and fire. They discuss retrofitting strategies, what to look for when hiring a PS Admin, and more.
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This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about certificates with PeopleSoft, the OCI certificate service, and a cool terminal recording program ASCIInema. Show Notes GitHub CoPilot and VIM @ 2:00 Learning and Re-learning VIM @ 8:00 ASCIInema.org @ 10:30 Digital Certificates in PeopleSoft @ 13:00 External Digital Certificates in 8.59 Setup your o…
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This week on the podcast, Dan talks about some changes to the DDDAudit report to generate SQL, and some changes in refresh scripts for 8.58. Kyle discusses ways to test and validate Integration Broker messages after a refresh. Show Notes Facebook Outage @ 5:00 DDDAudit Modification @ 12:00 Refresh SQL Updates @ 17:00 Testing Async IB Messages @ 26:…
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This week on the podcast, Dan shares some odd behavior with Remote Folders and some UI changes from Jim Marion, and Kyle talks about some improvements in the Page and Field Configurator. Show Notes "It's the Portal!" @ 1:45 Current for 16 Hours @ 3:00 Leveraging Page and Field Configurator @ 7:00 ACM and IB and PRCS Limitations @ 9:00 System Variab…
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Administrator Horror Stories Episode 2: Silence Is Golden!, and Data Dump
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Dust-up over a Yelp review, and a missing flash drive containing patient information wreaks havoc.
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