Tag Archives: SAS 9.3

New Book: The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes

By Paul Homes | Published: 12 May 2012
The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes by Tricia Aanderud and Angela Hall

At the SAS® Global Forum 2012 last month I picked up a copy of “The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes“, the latest book from the dynamic writing duo, Tricia Aanderud & Angela Hall. As it happens, my partner Michelle also won a copy in a draw so we actually got 2 copies! We [...]

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Sneak Peek at our new Effective Permissions Explorers

By Paul Homes | Published: 10 April 2012

This post is a sneak peek at a couple of effective permissions explorers that we are putting into the next version of our Metacoda Security Plug-ins. We’ll also be demoing these at the SAS Global Forum 2012 in Orlando next week, so if you’re attending please pop by and visit us. One of the most [...]

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SAS & IWA: Reviewing SPNs

By Paul Homes | Published: 8 April 2012

My last post was about configuring additional Service Principal Names (SPNs) in Active Directory to support the use of Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) in a SAS® platform installation that uses host name aliases in preference to physical host names. When working on a SAS & IWA setup like this, I’d start by reviewing the currently [...]

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SAS & IWA: Host Name Aliases and SPNs

By Paul Homes | Published: 7 April 2012

I’m quite keen on using host name aliases, rather than their physical host names, when referring to machines in SAS® platform installations. It does however mean a little extra configuration is required when using Integrated Windows Authentication. That is what this post is about: configuring Active Directory with additional Service Principal Names (SPNs) based on [...]

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SAS Management Console over SSH

By Paul Homes | Published: 5 April 2012

I was asked recently how to get SAS® Management Console to remotely access a SAS metadata server using SSH tunnels. In the absence of a VPN connection to your network, SSH can be an alternative for SAS Management Console access to a remote SAS metadata server. I am a huge fan of SSH (Secure Shell). [...]

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